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“I’m not saying that it’s a horrible monster here to mercilessly devour you whole. I’m sure it would chew you first.” —Thomas Price
“If you find something you truly love, stick with it. There’s nothing else in this world that will make you half as happy. There’s nothing else that will make you half as miserable, either, but you can’t have one without the other.” —Alexander Healy
Sometimes science sucks.
a Pliny’s gorgon, which puts her in the middle range of “potentially deadly cryptids with snakes in place of hair.” Lesser gorgons are more common, greater gorgons are more dangerous, and Pliny’s gorgons are, as Dee says, just right.
Grandpa Martin is a little closer to human—or at least, he started out that way. He’s what we call a Revenant, a construct of formerly dead body parts that has been successfully reanimated through one highly unpleasant mechanism or another.
God of Scales and Silence,”
Alex
Aeslin mice have their own unique approach to the language. I was the God of Scales and Silence—largely, I think, because I liked snakes and didn’t talk as much as my sisters—and Grandma and Sarah were the Heartless Ones.
My Aunt Jane married an incubus,
“What do you want to do?” “Ignite the heart of a dormant sun and resolve the impossible fractions,” she replied.
“Yes, dear, it does seem unwise to stand here and calmly wait to be devoured by the ever-expanding maw of the netherworld. If you have a suggestion as to how better to handle the situation, I’m quite eager to hear it.” —Thomas Price
“Will you tell me a bedtime equation?”
(Australia. The only continent designed with a difficulty rating of “ha ha fuck you no.”)
“Being smart isn’t good enough. You need to be educated, and you need to be open-minded, and you need to remember that what you don’t know can most definitely hurt you.” —Martin Baker
“Good for you. Now survive the next one.” —Thomas Price
