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The Ten Thousand Doors of January
Its name is Modernity, I am told, and it carries Progress and Prosperity in its coal-fired belly—but I see only rigidity, repression, a chilling resistance to change.
Alix E. Harrow • The Ten Thousand Doors of January
Maybe all powerful men are cowards at heart, because in their hearts they know power is temporary.
Alix E. Harrow • The Ten Thousand Doors of January
Doors are revolutions and upheavals, uncertainties and mysteries, axis points around which entire worlds can be turned. They are the beginnings and endings of every true story, the passages between that lead to adventures and madness and—here he smiled—even love. Without doors the worlds would grow stagnant, calcified, storyless.
Alix E. Harrow • The Ten Thousand Doors of January
Doors introduce change. And from change come all things: revolution, resistance, empowerment, upheaval, invention, collapse, reformation—all the most vital components of human history, in short.
Alix E. Harrow • The Ten Thousand Doors of January
There is nothing quite like the anger of someone very powerful who has been thwarted by someone who was supposed to be weak.
Alix E. Harrow • The Ten Thousand Doors of January
I do not mean they have power in the sense that they might stir men’s hearts or tell stories or declare truths, for those are the powers words have in every world.
Alix E. Harrow • The Ten Thousand Doors of January
fallen women are afforded a species of freedom.
Alix E. Harrow • The Ten Thousand Doors of January
I happen to believe every story is a love story if you catch it at the right moment, slantwise in the light of dusk—but it wasn’t then.
Alix E. Harrow • The Ten Thousand Doors of January
I should have known: destiny is a pretty story we tell ourselves. Lurking beneath it there are only people, and the terrible choices we make.
Alix E. Harrow • The Ten Thousand Doors of January
to find my own power and write it on the world.”