Nettle & Bone

by T. Kingfisher

few humans were truly worth the love of a living dog. Some gifts you could never deserve.

“Well, he’s a dog. They don’t have an idea how the world’s supposed to be, so it doesn’t bother them when it isn’t.”

maybe the weakness of being good was that evil didn’t occur to you.

Nothing is fair, except that we try to make it so. That’s the point of humans, maybe, to fix things the gods haven’t managed.

“You cannot help people who do not want help,” rumbled Fenris. “You can’t force someone to do what you think is best for them.”

“We can only save people who want to be saved,”

I’m surrounded by lunatics, and I love them all,