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"“Lucy writes.”
“Lucie worries. She doesn’t say so, but I know she worries, that all her writing will come to nothing.” 🕯️📃🖋️" — Apr 23, 2026 10:29AM
"“Lucy writes.”
“Lucie worries. She doesn’t say so, but I know she worries, that all her writing will come to nothing.” 🕯️📃🖋️" — Apr 23, 2026 10:29AM
After I did, there came heavy footfalls towards me. The door swung open—goodness, that man can swing a door almost as well as he can throw open a curtain.
“How terrible, to navigate the world without a story to comfort you.”
― A Study in Drowning
― A Study in Drowning
“I wish I had fought.” Effy surprised herself by saying it. The words had leaped out of her throat, unbidden. “I know I beat him in the end, but for so many years all I could do was run and hide. I just sat there and let the water pour in around me. I didn’t know that I could fight back. I didn’t know how to do anything but wait to drown.”
“Oh no, Effy. That’s not what I meant at all. You don’t have to take up a sword. Survival is bravery, too.”
― A Study in Drowning
“Oh no, Effy. That’s not what I meant at all. You don’t have to take up a sword. Survival is bravery, too.”
― A Study in Drowning
“That was the cruelest irony: the more you did to save yourself, the less you became a person worth saving.”
― A Study in Drowning
― A Study in Drowning
“It began as all things did: a girl on the shore, terrified and desirous.”
― 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
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