Alex

“I must have taken that book down from my father’s shelf more times than he considered strictly polite, because at one point I pulled it out and found he had printed his name on the inside cover: Property of Michael Henry Frayne, on long lease to his daughter Leah.”
― Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea

“If you’ve got breath enough to scream, as my father said, you’re not drowning,”
― Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea

“To know the ocean, I have always felt, is to recognize the teeth it keeps half-hidden.”
― Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea