Small Spaces (Small Spaces, #1)

by Katherine Arden

What’s the difference between a cat and a comma?” “Dad—” “Well?” “I don’t know, what?” Her dad grinned. “A comma,” he informed her, “is a pause at the end of a clause.” Ollie saw where this was going. “Dad.” “But a cat,” her dad finished blithely, “has claws at the ends of its paws.”

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

Coco didn’t cry because she was weak. Coco cried because she felt things.