Lost in the Moment and Found (Wayward Children, #8)

by Seanan McGuire

she loved her life, and she didn’t want to lose any of it. She had the vague feeling that sometimes good things were only as good as they were because all the pieces had managed to line up just so, and if you took any of them away, it wouldn’t be good anymore. Maybe not good at all.

a thing being interesting doesn’t mean it has to interest you,”

Being bruised doesn’t make you bad, unless you’re a peach, and even a bruised peach is good for making jam.”

That’s one of the things about living in a body. It can change, but the ways it changes today will be the ways it has always been tomorrow. If the modification isn’t noted in the moment, then it can be all too easily dismissed.

Left to their own devices, they would say things that overturned everything she thought she knew about the way the world—any of the worlds—worked and then just walk away like it was nothing.

Luck and timing. Just looking for something lost doesn’t make you Lost yourself.”