Juniper & Thorn

If there was power in keeping a secret, surely there was power in revealing it too

I would smile blithely if someone tried to saw off my leg. But no one had ever told me that I was allowed to scream

More likely because my people have prohibitions against inking your skin. But there’s hardly anything in life worth doing that doesn’t make somebody angry.

Only twenty-one. That’s so sad, isn’t it?”
“Why is it sad?”
“Because,” she said, “what do you do when you’re twenty-one and you’ve already achieved everything that most people can only dream of? You have the rest of your life in front of you, but nowhere else to go.”

our nearest neighbors were so vexed by the noise that they threatened to call the Grand Inspector on us. Papa, in turn, threatened to turn them into shrubs.

dream of? You have the rest of your life in front of you, but nowhere else to go.”

Because,” she said, “what do you do when you’re twenty-one and
you’ve already achieved everything that most people can only