“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
“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
“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
“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
“Bel,” she said helplessly, around the fire in her throat. “Queen of ducks and angels. You shall have poems written to you with a quill on fire. You shall have songs sung to you by enchanted harps. Whole branches of grammar will be invented only to praise you.” “Ysabel Hawthorn,” she said, and she could not keep the heat from her voice, “demand better than to be worshipped by a crumb.”
― The River Has Roots
― The River Has Roots
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