, , and and , and , we're calling your names. - Seanan McGuire

If you want to help her, you need to help yourself first. No one serves their friends by grinding themselves into dust on the altar of compassion.

Parents lied to children when they thought it was necessary, or when they thought that it would somehow make things better. It only made sense that children should lie to parents in the same way.

Katherine understood rules. Understood them down to the marrow of her bones. Rules were the reason the world could work at all. Following the rules didn’t make you a good person, just like breaking them didn’t make you a bad one, but it could make you an invisible person, and invisible people got to do as they liked.