Small Spaces (Small Spaces, #1)

by Katherine Arden

But mostly I hope he is safely dead, and that I will see him in the next world. Because the alternative is so much worse.

You might get to know characters in books, Ollie thought, but getting to know a human was an entirely different thing.

Even bad things can lead to good. Maybe in sad times, it helps to think of that.”

Wherever you go in this big, gorgeous, hideous world, there is a ghost story waiting for you.

Coco didn’t cry because she was weak. Coco cried because she felt things. Ollie never cried because she didn’t feel things. Not anymore. Not really. She tried not to feel things.