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“The Atargatis hadn’t found the mermaids through a free and open exchange of ideas. The Atargatis had found the mermaids because the people on the ship were made of meat, and the mermaids had empty stomachs that they wanted to fill. That was how you found things, in the sea. Be delicious. That was all you ever had to do.”
― Into the Drowning Deep
― Into the Drowning Deep
“I used to cry over a story and then close the book, and it all would be over. Now everything resonates, sticks like a splinter, festers.”
― We Are Okay
― We Are Okay
“I would not love, unless I was loved first and loved the most. I would be nothing at all, if I could not be first.”
― The Red Palace
― The Red Palace
“I listened to the same heartbroken song the entire bus ride home, because it was still a summer when sadness was beautiful.”
― We Are Okay
― We Are Okay
“Some dreams, I'd learned, were meant to fade away. And to let go of them didn't mean to let go of myself, but to release the life I'd imagined I wanted. The loss had grieved me at first, but in its fading away-slowly, very slowly-a new dream had bloomed.”
― The Red Palace
― The Red Palace
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