That Ain't Witchcraft (InCryptid #8)

by Seanan McGuire

Normally, I would have been annoyed to find that someone had been writing in a book, especially a book as old as this one. In this case, I was delighted. When trying to learn local history, the real story is usually in the footnotes and the indices, hidden in the places where people don’t want you to look.

hope you never have to learn what you’re not willing to give up. Knowledge like that always costs so much more than you were hoping to pay.”

The intelligent mind doesn’t hold on to novelty very well. That’s intentional. If we were constantly being surprised by our surroundings, we would never be able to get anything done. We have to become jaded if we’re going to be functional.

“A reasonable expectation of privacy is not an admission of guilt.

We build our presents on the ruins of our pasts, and we hope the foundations we construct from the dust of bad ideas and painful choices will be strong enough to hold up our futures. They have to be.