I was still wearing my shoes. The staff was paid to wash the sheets after every visit, and by the point we left the field, Iโd dressed and undressed so many times in the course of decontamination that I never wanted to remove my clothes again. Iโd just wear them until they dissolved, and then spend the rest of my life naked.
Mira GrantRepetition is sometimes the best way to deal with the Luideag: just keep saying the same thing over and over until she gets fed up and gives you what you want. All preschoolers have an instinctive grasp of this concept, but most donโt practice it on immortal water demons. Thatโs probably why there are so few disembowelments in your average preschool.
Mira GrantEvery life has a watershed moment, an instant when you realize you're about to make a choice that will define everything else you ever do, and that if you choose wrong, there may not be that many things left to choose. Sometimes the wrong choice is the only one that lets you face the end with dignity, grace, and the awareness that you're doing the right thing. I'm not sure we can recognize those moments until they've passed us.
Mira GrantRemember how pissed you got when we had to do all that reading about the Rising back in sixth grade? I thought you were going to get us both expelled. You said the only way things could've gotten as bad as they did was if people were willing to take the first easy answer they could find and cling to it, rather than doing anything as complicated as actually thinking.
Mira Grant