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“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.”
― The Salt Grows Heavy
― The Salt Grows Heavy
“Names are like selkie-skins, often carelessly attended, left in view of those who would misuse them. Utilized incorrectly, though, they can kill a man, can turn a girl to a thing of teeth and dead eyes, an appetite to devour worlds; can make infernos of maidens, phoenixes of bones who have been asleep for so long they've forgotten the shape of rage. Names have so much power.”
― The Salt Grows Heavy
― The Salt Grows Heavy
“If Jacob's ladder reached all the way to heaven, so, too, did ours.”
― The Book of Longings
― The Book of Longings
“If goldfish are doomed in a bowl, they are unstoppable in a river.”
― How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures
― How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures
“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.”
― The Mountain in the Sea
― The Mountain in the Sea
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