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“That was the cruelest irony: the more you did to save yourself, the less you became a person worth saving.”
― Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning

“We must discuss, then, the relationship between women and water. When men fall into the sea, they drown. When women meet the water, they transform. It becomes vital to ask: is this a metamorphosis, or a homecoming?”
― Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning

“It certainly supports her view of humanity. Especially using the children.”
“And why is that?”
“Because we credit them with innocence. And if even the most innocent among us turn into killers in the Hunger Games, what does that say? That our essential nature is violent.”
“Self-destructive.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

“The heart is an arrow. It demands aim to land true.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows