The Twisted Ones

by T. Kingfisher

(Okay, okay, fine, I’ve heard of dog owners who have hounds that are so responsive that they will heel beautifully with no lead at all. Those are smarter owners than me and smarter dogs than Bongo. But we do fine by each other, and that’s the important thing.)

Not the same, a bit toned down, but the voice of this character is already verrryyyy similar to the main character of A House With Good Bones

We are a family that divorces quietly and without contest. If someone says they are done with us, we take them at their word.

I had no idea who they were that didn’t come around her. Probably Cotgrave’s family, but really, it could have been anybody. Grandma had that effect on people.

i like that this protagonist seems to be less stupid than the one in A House With Good Bones, it's refreshing to not constantly think "obviously that's not it!!!!" all the time w her.

It didn’t exactly have a rhythm, but it had an intrusive quality to it. Like when you stand on the edge of a high place and your brain whispers to you about jumping.

When you’re a kid, you’re always wrong if you’re mad at a grown-up.

Ugh :(

But in reality, if you try to explain a dream, you end up saying, “I was talking to Abraham Lincoln, but he was also sort of my father, and we were in the house I grew up in but the window screen kept falling out and I was trying to wedge it back in, over and over again, and I was getting really frustrated and also I wasn’t wearing pants.”

So true

I tell you this so that you won’t think I’m a complete idiot—or maybe so that I can convince myself

God, i just like her so much more than the main character in A House With Good Bones…shes so realistic and with it

There are very few people who can use a pet name on me, but Southern waitresses can get away with it every time.

You didn’t spend the night in a place with monstrous deer creatures staring in the windows.

OK THANK YOU!!!!!! We love a realistic queen

Have we thus all begun to sin, or have our senses become numbed so that we will no longer recognize true sin when we see it?

That is the end of the story, or at least of most of it.

This felt like.…such a waste tbh

I put hickory twigs in all the windows, but that just looks like a weird decorating choice.

#justwitchythings

she allowed as how a cell phone might be useful to have around,

i had to reread so may sentences in this damn book man