“She did love us. Does.”“She loves you the way a drowning person loves somebody they can push down and climb on top of.” Medusa's Web (2016)
Love isn’t in the category of normal things. Not any worthwhile kind of love, anyway. Down and Out in Purgatory: The Collected Stories of Tim Powers (2017)
You protect the ones you love. He clung to the thought. Even if they ignorantly resent you for it. Down and Out in Purgatory: The Collected Stories of Tim Powers (2017)