“But sometimes it feels like I’m pulling up the carpeting in an old house, and finding everything underneath has gone to rot.”
― Starling House
― Starling House
“It began as all things did: a girl on the shore, terrified and desirous.”
― A Study in Drowning
― A Study in Drowning
“She had been terrifed of anything that might hold her where she was, that might chain her where she couldn't flee. She had fashioned herself into an escape artist, a magician whose only trick was vanishing. Permanence was dangerous. It had always felt like a trap.”
― A Study in Drowning
― A Study in Drowning
“I was a woman when it was convenient to blame me, and a girl when they wanted to use me.”
― A Study in Drowning
― 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?”
― A Study in Drowning
― A Study in Drowning
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