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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.
“There was an intimacy to all violence, she supposed. The better you knew someone, the more terribly you could hurt them.”
― 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
“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
“He laughed a little, like he was drunk. "I do say it a lot."
"What?" she said, going briefly still.
"Your name," he said, and closed his eyes. He nearly fell over, catching himself at the last second. "I didn't know your name for so long, angel. I love the way it feels in my mouth.”
― These Infinite Threads
"What?" she said, going briefly still.
"Your name," he said, and closed his eyes. He nearly fell over, catching himself at the last second. "I didn't know your name for so long, angel. I love the way it feels in my mouth.”
― These Infinite Threads
“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
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