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The Ten Thousand Doors of January
Something about having a child bends you back to your beginnings, as if you have been drawing a circle all your life and now are compelled to close it.
Alix E. Harrow • The Ten Thousand Doors of January
insofar as it was possible to love someone so naturally comfortable in three-piece suits, I loved him.
Alix E. Harrow • The Ten Thousand Doors of January
It felt like donning a suit of armor or sprouting wings, extending past the boundaries of myself; it felt an awful lot like love.
Alix E. Harrow • The Ten Thousand Doors of January
to find my own power and write it on the world.”
Alix E. Harrow • The Ten Thousand Doors of January
but eventually rage burns out and leaves nothing but ash, a muted landscape drawn in charcoal gray.
Alix E. Harrow • The Ten Thousand Doors of January
The will to be polite, to maintain civility and normalcy, is fearfully strong. I wonder sometimes how much evil is permitted to run unchecked simply because it would be rude to interrupt it.
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
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
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.