

“When you call a ghetto a cordon, does it become a village?”
― Borealis: A Worldmaker of Yand Novel
― Borealis: A Worldmaker of Yand Novel

“He’s a bad man, Mama, came the thought, somehow manifesting itself into the voice of my little Maddie. ”
― Child of Another Kind
― Child of Another Kind

“Then Raya saw Rebecca West, the fourteen-year-old who only saved her own life by testifying against her mother, and then she saw her own face reflected in these girls – a swirl of chance, and life and sorrow.”
― Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For
― Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

“Nothing looked disturbed…yet everything felt that way. The guy was on the bed, calmness itself, as though he’d decided on a moment’s lie-down and just zizzed off.”
― The Erkeley Shadows
― The Erkeley Shadows

“So he’s a bad guy.”
“Everyone’s bad.”
“No,” Bob said, “they’re not. Most people are okay.”
“Yeah?” A smile of disbelief.
“Yeah. They just, I dunno, make a lotta messes and then they make more messes trying to clean those first messes up and after a while that’s your life.”
She sniffled and chuckled at the same time. “That’s it, uh?”
“That’s it sometimes.”
― The Drop
“Everyone’s bad.”
“No,” Bob said, “they’re not. Most people are okay.”
“Yeah?” A smile of disbelief.
“Yeah. They just, I dunno, make a lotta messes and then they make more messes trying to clean those first messes up and after a while that’s your life.”
She sniffled and chuckled at the same time. “That’s it, uh?”
“That’s it sometimes.”
― The Drop
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