“Jake pried the head open, giving me a look when I warned him not to cut himself on the teeth. It is a look I think all children master at about his age – the one that insists the looker needs no warning while, by its very confidence, convincing the one looked at that the warning was very necessary indeed.”

“Jake pried the head open, giving me a look when I warned him not to cut himself on the teeth. It is a look I think all children master at about his age – the one that insists the looker needs no warning while, by its very confidence, convincing the one looked at that the warning was very necessary indeed.”

— Marie Brennan