## Metadata - Author: [[Alix E. Harrow]] - Full Title: The Ten Thousand Doors of January - Category: #books ## Highlights - down two flights of stairs, through the kitchens where ([Location 1018](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07M77XW56&location=1018)) - With the finding of a door comes change. ([Location 1380](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07M77XW56&location=1380)) - When asked what she was hungry for, she laughed and said, “Same thing as you, I bet. Ways-between. Nowheres. Somewheres.” She scoured the Earth, wandering and ravenous, looking for doors. And she found them.5 She found them in abandoned churches and the salt-rimed walls of caves, in graveyards and behind fluttering curtains in foreign markets. She found so many her imagining of the world grew lacy and tattered with holes, like a mouse-chewed map. I followed her in my own time and rediscovered as many as I could. But doors by their natures are openings, passings-through, missing-places—and it has proved difficult to record the precise geometry of absence. My notes are full of dead ends and uncertainties, whispers and rumors, and even my most careful reports are full of unanswered questions hovering like gray angels in the margins. ([Location 1381](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07M77XW56&location=1381))