Copper River was a small, tightly knit town. If gossip was a competitive sport, we’d have been sending teams… — Jim C. Hines

Do you remember the moment you first realize you were mortal? That no matter what happened, you would never live long enough to read every book you wanted to read? That you’d die having accomplished only a fraction of your goals?

Every Porter was required to see a therapist on a regular basis. It seemed a wise precaution for people who routinely rewrote the laws of existence to suit their whims.

The more we narrow the definition of beauty, the more beauty we shut out of our lives.