Adrift in Currents Clean and Clear (Wayward Children, #10)

by Seanan McGuire

This was not her choice. This was her body, but it was not her decision, and that alone made it very heavy, and difficult to carry.

Stories had to have beginnings, which meant someone had to be where they were beginning, or there was no purpose to them. She was just at the beginning of a story, that was all, and this was perfectly possible.

“Trust is an important gift, difficult to give and easy to break.

What was love, anyway? Was it a form of possession?

“You saved yourself,” said Vasyl. “I would think that is the most important adventure of all.”

future is a monster of its own breed, different for everyone, and ever inescapable.