Summer in Orcus

by T. Kingfisher

Summer’s mother believed that books were safe things that kept you inside, which only shows how little she knew about it, because books are one of the least safe things in the world.)

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1. Don’t worry about things that you cannot fix. 2. Antelope women are not to be trusted. 3. You cannot change essential nature with magic.

“That one world with all the nasty grabby tentacles?”

The more I read this, the more I love it 😁

a huge woman in blue velvet with a voice like swan wings,

Unless you have ever been really truly terrified, you cannot know how exhausting that is. For a brief period, you are extremely awake and tense and terrified, but afterwards, when all the adrenaline wears off, you feel you could sleep for a week without stopping.

This is absolutely true.

I have to get him out. It doesn’t matter if he eats me. If I leave him here, I won’t feel like me any more.

We call ourselves what we are, or wish to be, or could be again.”

We are all still worth saving.”