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

by Seanan McGuire

If certain tasks would always be more difficult for her, well, wasn’t that true of everyone? No single person could do absolutely everything without aid, and so her own limitations weren’t limitations at all, merely different standards.

the idea that a child who didn’t conform to his exact ideas of shape and function could be completely happy, and not consider herself lacking in the least, was even further away).

Oh, how she hated. She hated being forced to conform to other people’s idea of normal, whether they be cultural or physical.

We can’t all be heroes, after all. World’s not looking for one at the moment, so far as I’m aware.”

“Trust is an important gift, difficult to give and easy to break. But if you trust me, I shall do my best to trust you,

Sometimes people, like tales, begin where they do not belong.

What was love, anyway? Was it a form of possession? She had loved Maksim, very much, and that was why she had sent him away to a home where he could be happy and well cared for, all the days of his life.

I didn’t save anything important or find anything that had been lost.” “You saved yourself,” said Vasyl. “I would think that is the most important adventure of all.”

“Humans are curious things. They want to know. They want the answers to questions that had no business ever being asked, and so they’re never truly sure of anything, not even their own desires. They’re too busy chasing their tails to see the rabbits.