Weave a Circle Round Quotes

“She opened her mouth to say, What’s wrong with you? Why don’t you really see us? You don’t, do you? You’ve taken yourselves off into your own little lives, whatever those are, and we’re just these … extras you happen to have at home. You don’t think you think of us like that. You think you’re ordinary parents who love us and look after us. You’ve written this little story inside your heads about how we fit into your lives.”
― Kari Maaren, Weave a Circle Round

“If Josiah was all about order, why were there things about him that didn’t make logical sense? How could he be an embodiment of reason and still not age or sleep? Why did his hair grow but not the rest of him? Why did Cuerva Lachance consistently forget names she had heard two minutes before but remember epithets over periods spanning multiple thousands of years? Wasn’t someone who never followed rules actually following a rule? Why”
― Kari Maaren, Weave a Circle Round

“Have you ever had one of those days where everything goes so stupidly wrong that you find yourself saying every five minutes, 'Now this can't possibly get any worse'? And then it does?”
― Kari Maaren, Weave a Circle Round

“Nothing changed...or everything changed constantly, but not in a very constructive way. That was, Freddy decided, the problem with Cuerva Lachance. There was change but no growth.”
― Kari Maaren, Weave a Circle Round