Every Heart a Doorway (Wayward Children, #1)

by Seanan McGuire

Narrate the impossible things, turn them into a story, and they could be controlled.

Now I know that if you open the right door at the right time, you might finally find a place where you belong.

hope is a knife that can cut through the foundations of the world,”

“Hope hurts. That’s what you need to learn, and fast, if you don’t want it to cut you open from the inside out. Hope is bad. Hope means you keep on holding to things that won’t ever be so again,

“You shouldn’t close doors just because you don’t like what’s on the other side.”

only by learning about the journeys of others can we truly understand our own.”

we spend so much time waiting for our boys to stray that they never have the opportunity. We notice the silence of men. We depend upon the silence of women.”

Their love wanted to fix her, and refused to see that she wasn’t broken.

This world is unforgiving and cruel to those it judges as even the slightest bit outside the norm.

only one who gets to tell you how your story ends is you.

“Nobody gets to tell me how my story ends but me.”