Mislaid in Parts Half-Known (Wayward Children, #9)

by Seanan McGuire

“Just because someone hurt you when you were a child, that doesn’t make it right for you to hurt anyone else.”

“Not wanting to look at a thing doesn’t make it not so; it just makes it so the thing can lurk and loom and leap out when you don’t expect it. If you want a life without terrible surprises, you should always look at the worst possible answer until you understand it all the way down to the bottom. Once you can do that, you’ll know what’s coming, even if you’ll never learn to like it.”

As an anxious person, safe to say I got this covered

“You can touch the perishables, or they’ll perish,” said Sumi,