Chloe Timms > Quotes

“The memory of that day is a part of me now, tough like hardened skin. You never forget your first. You hope and pray it will be the last you ever see. You already know. Deep down. It'll happen again and you will have to watch. The screaming, the waiting, watching her body tied down, the boat rocking and shunting, capsizing. Drowning. The point where you can see with your own eyes what it means to be a woman.”
― Chloe Timms, The Seawomen

“He told us to keep records of any lapses in behaviour, any godless speech, any shaking and tremors, and take any notes to the Observatory and post them into a Suspicions Box.”
― Chloe Timms, The Seawomen

“The darkness too. It crawls into us when we're bad, spreads and spreads until there's nothing of God left. The Seawomen ⁠— they can sense it.”
― Chloe Timms, The Seawomen

“Wrong. Whatever you think, whatever you do, their darkness is waiting to take hold of you. It was a woman who caused the end of paradise. It was women of the old world who turned good men to sin. It was women who refused God and rejected motherhood and turned the world upside down. This paradise here relies on you. One wrong step and all this is gone. The Seawomen were born in darkness, a mutation of everything wrong in this world, female creatures who rejected God and found a way to shun men. They crave your sin. They feed on it. They want you to turn your back on God and use you to help destroy this island. Listen to temptation and you condemn us all. You, your mothers, your fathers. All of us, damned to the abyss.”
― Chloe Timms, The Seawomen

“Then it was my own body I saw flailing, weed reaching for me, stitching me to the seabed. I looked at one of the dolls in my hand, a woman, a red mouth.”
― Chloe Timms, The Seawomen

“He said: 'Pay heed to the daughters, for they are the weak and the tender, prone to dealings of the dark.' If she lives with devotion and self-control from the moment she takes her mother's breast, she will be saved. Preserve her sweetness, hide her from the rapturous emotions that tempt her away from innocence. Only then, when her fruit grows in servitude, will she fulfil God's purpose and deliver Him the gift of a child.”
― Chloe Timms