Snake-Eater

by T. Kingfisher

The Hollow Places A House with Good Bones What Moves the Dead

Nettle & Bone

Selena believed, with every fiber of her being, that a person’s worth was not defined by how hard they worked or how productive they managed to be. She also believed just as strongly that this did not apply to her.

All it took was one run of bad luck and it didn’t matter how hard you’d worked your whole life, you were down in the gutter with the broken and the unlucky and the professionally helpless.

and even though she was crazy, she was still kind of hoping that nobody else would notice.

Her mother 22had been troublesome while she was alive, and it was depressing, if not surprising, to discover that she continued to be troublesome after her death.

“Ain’t about winning. Winning’s stupid.

I’m being stupid.” “No, you’re being human, and that’s not always an easy thing to be. Now come on.”

“There have always been monsters. The ones in the desert are a bit more straightforward than the ones in men, that’s all.”

No, pretty sure this was all caused by a well-meaning white woman, and you know how much trouble we are.”

“Fortunately, some things stay true whether we believe in them or not.”

“Having people picking at you all the time is hard enough. Acting like it’s for your own good, that’s just too damn much.”

And I do not believe in a God who would be more offended by jokes about crosses than by the system which has made them poor.”