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1 " Your family, your real family, will always welcome you home with open arms. Anyone who says you can lose their love isn't really family, no matter what blood says. "
― Seanan McGuire , Tricks for Free (InCryptid, #7)
2 " To people who think they're the best the world has to offer, kindness is an afterthought and an unnecessary one at that. "
3 " You can't do this alone. Nobody can. Nobody should have to. "
4 " It’s not that I hate my job. It’s that I hate the people I have to do it with. "
5 " Humans believe what humans want to believe, and mostly what humans want to believe is that their dominion over the Earth will never be challenged. "
6 " My hair threw up," said Megan. "
7 " The enemy of my enemy is my friend; the earworm of my grandmother is my weapon. "
8 " Turns out, ignorance often comes with an exciting, unexpected side effect: cruelty. To people who think they're the best the world has to offer, kindness is an afterthought and an unnecessary one at that. "
9 " Magic is nice, but napalm is reliable. "
10 " Bullying isn’t tied to age. It’s tied to who a person is, and sadly, these people were more interested in being ugly assholes than they were in being decent human beings. "
11 " isn’t a blood relative, but she’s absolutely a member of the family, because family is more than blood. "
12 " I straightened, trying to shake off the feeling that time was broken, that something had somehow gone horribly wrong and caused everything to stretch out like taffy. "
13 " I want my mommy,” she whispered. I understood the sentiment better than I’d ever thought I would as an adult. I wanted my own mommy so badly that it hurt. "
14 " We are Aeslin. We believe, and we endure. So be it. "
15 " My family shares my context. They know my education, my experiences, where the bone-deep bruises on my psyche are. "
16 " Suddenly losing one of the basic concepts of the universe? Probably not a good thing. "
17 " all the tension he’d been trying to wash away was back, and it had brought some friends along, to make sure it didn’t get lonely. "
18 " People who were trying to wreak retribution were almost always people I was allowed to punch, and I was really looking forward to that right about now. "
19 " Sam rubbed his forehead with his free hand and tried to figure out when his life had gone quite this far sideways. "
20 " Everyone’s a blogger these days. Even the six-year-olds could be tiny public relations disasters in princess dresses and pigtails. "