It is hard to accept being different, hard to have people avoid looking at you, and still believe in yourself.

He was like Superman, but with fangs and oddly impaired morals.

There is no cash in battling evil: just the opposite in my experience

It was complicated. I understood it, mostly, but I had to think a little sideways to do it.

What do you mean?” Leslie’s voice was cool, as if she questioned witches who were flat on their backs being threatened by werewolves every day.

She crawled,” Ben said. There were tears in his voice. That was wrong. Ben barely even tolerated me on the best of days. “She crawled to the bathroom to clean herself again. If it weren’t for the two subs in the pack, I’d be on the bottom. And she wouldn’t stand up in my presence for guilt.

I suppose we must work on being gracious and grateful until we can do for ourselves. Someday the wheel of fate will put us in a position to be of use to them, and we will remember how much easier it is to give help than it is to accept it.