Alex

“I allow myself, for the gash of a moment, to remember what I once possessed: the abyssal ocean, the song in those depths like swimming down the black throat of a god; the searing colors moting my sisters' coils, sapphire and quartz crushed into constellations and prisms of incandescence spiraling through the dark, our tails in endless, restless motion; our mother's eyes colossal, phosphorescent; our father's ribs, still studded with our egg sacs, his heartbeat in our veins. I'd been happy there.”
― Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy

“Language doesn’t just allow us to describe the world as it exists: It also opens up a world of things that are not here.”
― Ray Nayler, The Mountain in the Sea

“If goldfish are doomed in a bowl, they are unstoppable in a river.”
― Sabrina Imbler, How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures

“I have this dream where I am not afraid to hold your hand in Texas.”
― Trista Mateer, Aphrodite Made Me Do It