“All Shesheshen could do for Homily was be patient with her, and make space for her, and eventually, one day behind her back, eat her mother.”
― Someone You Can Build a Nest In
― Someone You Can Build a Nest In
“I had multiple, passive, low-tier stealth movement abilities that never worked for shit because I traveled with a dinosaur and a talking cat, but I hoped it would help cover my passage now.”
― The Gate of the Feral Gods
― The Gate of the Feral Gods
“But that is the nature of grammar—it is always tense, like an instrument, aching for release, longing to transform present into past into future, is into was into will.”
― The River Has Roots
― The River Has Roots
“At least you two are back together now,” Donut said. “And you got a nice box out of it. I know you find it unpleasant, Carl. But you being stubborn about this is causing everything to be more dangerous. We have to kill these things anyway, so if the AI wants you to kill in a certain way, I don’t see why it matters. This is just like one of those agility courses that Miss Beatrice used to insist I complete at all the regional cat shows. I did not like doing it, and I never ribboned of course, but I knew if I did well, I would get an extra brushing that evening. We are all prostitutes in one way or another, I suppose.”
― The Gate of the Feral Gods
― The Gate of the Feral Gods
“You have spent too much time with mortals if you expect magic to move in a straight line,” Baba Jaga replies. She points at Ala, and then bends her index finger so it’s shaped like a hook. “Magic is crooked, and so are we.”
― When Among Crows
― When Among Crows
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