Angel Hench’s Reviews > The Ten Thousand Doors of January > Status Update

Let that be a lesson to you: if you are too good and too quiet for too long, it will cost you. It will always cost you, in the end.

Novels are untrustworthy advisers. They aren't concerned with rationality or sobriety; they peddle in tragedy and suspense, in chaos and rule breaking, in madness and heartache, and they will steer you toward such things with all the guile of a piper luring rats into a river.

His expression made me think of old-timey illustrations of god: severely paternal, bestowing the kind of love that weighs and measures before it find you worthy.