Tricks for Free (InCryptid #7)

by Seanan McGuire

There are people who say you never really escape from high school, you just keep finding it in different forms, over and over again, until it finally kills you. Those people are assholes, and should not be allowed in polite company. That doesn’t mean they’re wrong.

For her, we will always be children, and we will always need her to tuck us into bed and turn off our bedroom lights. There’s something soothing about that. There’s also something really sad. In my family, the two often go hand in hand.)

Cylia Mackie,

This HAS to be a Bubblegum Crisis joke, right?

“There’s a place for everything, and everything has its place. It just so happens that this knife belongs in your spleen.”

Everything we are in any given moment is the sum of our experiences and choices up until then,

“The thing to remember about allies is that they want you to be an ally right back. If you’re not a friend to your friends, you’re going to be an enemy eventually.”

“You don’t owe the world anything. That’s why you should try to make it better no matter what. A lack of obligation does not mean a lack of mercy.”