The Human Familiar Quotes

“I’m incredibly straight faced,” I told her mock-seriously. That made her laugh. “Yes, you’re amazingly stoic and reserved,” she griped, giving an overly exaggerated sigh. I thought about that. “I was traumatized by broccoli as a child, that’s what did it.”
― Honor Raconteur, The Human Familiar

“I love my family, I do, they just drive me stark raving mad. I had the choice of sanity-with-distance or insanity-while-home. I chose sanity.”
― Honor Raconteur, The Human Familiar

“Bodies are oddly distractible,” Bannen commented, words leading to nothing. “It’s the weirdest thing. I’ve been so badly injured my body was shaking, mind blanking, and then someone would force a bite into my mouth and my brain suddenly latched on to it. Crazy, right? Now I know that when the brain has too much to handle, food is the first go-to in order to give it something easy to do, something it can focus on without being overwhelmed”
― Honor Raconteur, The Human Familiar

“It got to the point by the second day that I found my hands idly creating garrotes and daydreaming about jumping him from behind.”
― Honor Raconteur, The Human Familiar

“Tears still stood in her eyes. My father always said, when a woman starts crying, deal with the tears first. Otherwise you won’t get a sensible word out of her.”
― Honor Raconteur, The Human Familiar

“You are its blueprint to restructure her physical being.”
― Honor Raconteur, The Human Familiar

“I've wanted to be a lot of strange things growing up, like a dog - I'm convinced dogs have the best lives - but familiar never made the list.”
― Honor Raconteur, The Human Familiar

“don’t underestimate old people. They’re treacherous and conniving”
― Honor Raconteur, The Human Familiar