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“I’m not entirely sure how to proceed. I know that humans have... customs, around these kinds of things. But I was not programmed with protocols for precisely how to navigate them.”
― Lyonne Riley, Programmed for Love

“What’s your Brooklyn residence like? Well”
― Joe Hill, The Pram

“What will become of us? How can we feed our children, when we have no more than we can eat ourselves?" "Know, then, my husband," answered she, "we will lead them away, quite early in the morning, into the thickest part of the wood, and there make them a fire, and give them each a little piece of bread; then we will go to our work, and leave them alone, so they will not find the way home again, and we shall be freed from them." "No, wife," replied he, "that I can never do. How can you bring your heart to leave my children all alone in the wood, for the wild beasts will soon come and tear them to pieces?”
― Jacob Grimm, Grimm's Fairy Stories

“Come forward, Lady Shrike. I shan’t bite. Now tell me: Where did thou last see the demon?”
― Alix E. Harrow, The Knight and the Butcherbird