“May she wander but always return home, may all her words be written true, may every door lie open before her.”
-The Ten Thousand Doors of January quotes by Alix E. Harrow
“I hope you will find the cracks in the world and wedge them wider, so the light of other suns shines through; I hope you will keep the world unruly, messy, full of strange magics; I hope you will run through every open Door and tell stories when you return.”
-The Ten Thousand Doors of January, Alix E. Harrow
“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.”
-The Ten Thousand Doors of January, Alix E. Harrow
“Cats, I have found, seem to exist in more or less the same form in every world; it is my belief that they have been slipping in and out of doors for several thousand years. Anyone familiar with house cats will know this is a particular hobby of theirs.”
-The Ten Thousand Doors of January, Alix E. Harrow
“There is nothing quite like the anger of someone very powerful, who has been thwarted by someone who was supposed to be weak.”
-The Ten Thousand Doors of January, Alix E. Harrow
“Books are Doors and I wanted out.”
-The Ten Thousand Doors of January, Alix E. Harrow
“The place you are born isn’t necessarily the place you belong.”
-The Ten Thousand Doors of January, Alix E. Harrow
“Freedom isn’t worth a single solitary shit if it isn’t shared.”
-The Ten Thousand Doors of January, Alix E. Harrow
“Destiny is a pretty story we tell ourselves. Lurking beneath it there are only people, and the terrible choices we make.”
-The Ten Thousand Doors of January, Alix E. Harrow
“Maybe all powerful men are cowards at heart, because in their hearts they know power is temporary.”
-The Ten Thousand Doors of January quotes by Alix E. Harrow
“How fitting, that the most terrifying time in my life should require me to do what I do best: escape into a book.”
-The Ten Thousand Doors of January, Alix E. Harrow
“It is at the moments when the doors open, when things flow between the worlds, that stories happen.”
-The Ten Thousand Doors of January, Alix E. Harrow
“If we address stories as archaeological sites, and dust through their layers with meticulous care, we find at some level there is always a doorway. A dividing point between here and there, us and them, mundane and magical. It is at the moments when the doors open, when things flow between the worlds, that stories happen.”
-The Ten Thousand Doors of January, Alix E. Harrow
“The trouble with you people,’ I observed, ‘is that you believe in permanence. An orderly world will remain so; a closed door will remain closed.’ I shook my head, reaching for the door. ‘It’s very … limiting.”
-The Ten Thousand Doors of January, Alix E. Harrow
“Sentences may alter the weather, and poems might tear down walls. Stories may change the world.”
-The Ten Thousand Doors of January quotes by Alix E. Harrow
“Most people can’t tell the difference between truthtelling and madness; try it sometime and you’ll see what I mean.”
-The Ten Thousand Doors of January, Alix E. Harrow
“There’s only one way to run away from your own story, and that’s to sneak into someone else’s.”
-The Ten Thousand Doors of January, Alix E. Harrow
“The point is that I was scared and hurt and alone sometimes but in the end I won. I’m free. And if that’s the price for being free, I’ll pay it.”
-The Ten Thousand Doors of January, Alix E. Harrow
“Sometimes pain is too unavoidable, too necessary to feel.”
-The Ten Thousand Doors of January, Alix E. Harrow
“Despair, once established, can be quite difficult to uproot.”
-The Ten Thousand Doors of January quotes by Alix E. Harrow
“I believed in second chances and righted wrongs and rewritten stories.”
-The Ten Thousand Doors of January, Alix E. Harrow
“Power, my dear, has a language. It has a geography, a currency, and—I’m sorry—a color. This is not something you may take personally or object to; it is simply a fact of the world, and the sooner you accustom yourself to it, the better.”
-The Ten Thousand Doors of January, Alix E. Harrow
“On the third day, my room became a cell, which became a cage, which became a coffin, and I discovered the very deepest fear that swam through my heart like eels in undersea caves: to be locked away, trapped and alone.”
-The Ten Thousand Doors of January, Alix E. Harrow
“I wanted to believe him, but I’d met enough empty promises in my life to know one when I heard it.”
-The Ten Thousand Doors of January, Alix E. Harrow
“This is the mad Midas touch of true love, which transforms everything it touches to gold.”
-The Ten Thousand Doors of January, Alix E. Harrow
“Doors, he told her, are change, and change is a dangerous necessity. Doors are revolutions and upheavals, uncertainties and mysteries, axis points around which entire worlds can be turned.”
-The Ten Thousand Doors of January, Alix E. Harrow
“You don’t really know how fragile and fleeting your own voice is, until you watch a rich man take it away as easily as signing a bank loan.”
-The Ten Thousand Doors of January, Alix E. Harrow
“When one enters a door, one must be brave enough to see the other side.”
-The Ten Thousand Doors of January, Alix E. Harrow
“True love is not stagnant; it is in fact a door, through which all kinds of miraculous and dangerous things may enter.”
-The Ten Thousand Doors of January, Alix E. Harrow
“(Do I regret it? Would I take it back, if I could? Tell her to resign herself to home and hearth, to give up her wandering ways? It depends which weighs more: a life, or a soul.)”
-The Ten Thousand Doors of January quotes by Alix E. Harrow
