Eric Budding’s Reviews > Crypt of the Moon Spider > Status Update

The adult in her had been subdued by violence and fear, and the little girl she used to be—the one who sang to the moon, who stared at its radiant eye each night and vowed to understand its mysteries—was in the ascendent.

“The mind is very complicated. It’s like a labyrinth. It can even deceive itself. Memories you thought were yours are sometimes fabrications, constructed to protect you from the truth.”

“I didn’t used to be this way. I was happy when I was a child. I had such grand ideas about how life would be. What happened to me? What happened to us?”
“We grew up.”

Oof. That was heart wrenching.