Every Heart a Doorway (Wayward Children, #1)

by Seanan McGuire

She was a story, not an epilogue.

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

We notice the silence of men. We depend upon the silence of women.”

Gender dysphoria is a form of torture.

“That’s because Narnia was a Christian allegory pretending to be a fantasy series, you asshole,”

“Corpses are incapable of offering informed consent, and are hence no better than vibrators.”

Eleanor was trying to save her beloved charges in the only way she knew. She was hurting them in the process.

You’re nobody’s doorway but your own, and the only one who gets to tell you how your story ends is you.