Entryways Quotes

“We rode for perhaps an hour with the snow tapping at our cheeks before we came to a little gully where the mountainside folded itself around a grove of misshapen willows. Even if the changeling hadn't directed us there, I would have taken it for a faerie door of some sort; though there are many sorts of doors, they all have a similar quality which can best---and quite inadequately---be described as unusual. A round ring of mushrooms is the obvious example, but one must additionally be on the lookout for large, hoary trees that dwarf their neighbors; for twisted trunks and gaping hollows; for wildflowers out of sync with the forest's floral denizens; for patterns of things; for mounds and depressions and inexplicable clearings. Anything that does not fit.”
― Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries

“I dreamed of insurmountable evidence, scholarly respectability, publications, and lectures. I have boxes and boxes of neatly indexed note cards, each describing some small brick in a vast wall of research: an Indonesian story about a golden tree whose boughs made a shimmering archway; a reference in a Gaelic hymn to the angels who fly through heaven's gate; the memory of a carven wood doorway in Mali, sand-weathered and blackened by centuries of secrets.”
― Alix E. Harrow, The Ten Thousand Doors of January

“Within me, I feel a flutter of anticipation. It's a familiar feeling--- for as long as I can remember, I've sensed that garden gates hold a bit of magic. Humble wooden gates with peeling white paint, heavy wrought-iron gates with ornate swirls, gently curved gates below rose-covered arbors, narrow gates half-hidden within jasmine-covered walls--- I can't help feeling that there is something enchanting about each and every one, something that makes a shiver dance along my spine as I open it and step through, leaving one world for another.”
― Meg Donohue, The Memory Gardener