He always thinks because I’m reading, I’m not doing anything. There is no greater plague to an introvert than the extroverted.


“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
― The Ten Thousand Doors of January

“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
― The Ten Thousand Doors of January

“The nurses had treated us so far like bulky, poorly behaved furniture that needed regular feeding and grooming. They spoke to us, but in the light, chattering way a farmer’s wife might speak to her chickens.”
― The Ten Thousand Doors of January
― The Ten Thousand Doors of January

“photographs, like mirrors, are notorious liars.”
― The Ten Thousand Doors of January
― The Ten Thousand Doors of January

“Because he liked octopi, he did, but they had always been pets. Try as he might, travel as many light years as they were, he had not left that part of him behind. He had bred them and mutated them and played all sorts of God, and now they wanted to know why and he had no answer.”
― Children of Ruin
― Children of Ruin
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