I've always believed the lies we use to make our fictions reveal the truth with far more honesty than any history or herstory or life story. - Charles de Lint

The puppet thinks:
It’s not so much
what they make me do
as their hands inside me.

Every big city like this is really two worlds. You could say it’s divided up between the haves and the have-nots, but it’s not that simple. It’s more like some people are citizens of the day and others of the night. Someone like me belongs to the night. Not because I’m bad, but because I’m invisible. People don’t know I exist.

"Don't start brooding about that, too," she says. "Everybody's got a piece of stranger inside them. It's what lets us surprise ourselves and keeps things interesting." -Lupita