“The rash on her legs is peeling, coming off her in great pale strips, like the discarded skin of a snake. Below it, the flesh isn't pink and raw, or dotted with blood. Instead it glimmers, changing color with the light of the storm. Green then blue, then the pinkish white of mother-of-pearl. Iridescent as scales.”
― The Sirens
― The Sirens
“Dum Spiro Spero. While I Breathe I Hope.”
― The Secrets of Saffron Hall
― The Secrets of Saffron Hall
“It was the water that protected me. It's the water that makes us strong.”
― The Sirens
― The Sirens
“Maybe we will drown or burn or starve one day, but until then we get to choose if we’ll add to that destruction or if we will care for each other.”
― Wild Dark Shore
― Wild Dark Shore
“The dreams had returned, lifting her hopes, but when she was awake she heard nothing, only the rush and roar of the sea.
And so she decided to paint them, the women. As if to let them know that she was there. That she was ready. It would be the opposite of an exorcism. A summoning.”
― The Sirens
And so she decided to paint them, the women. As if to let them know that she was there. That she was ready. It would be the opposite of an exorcism. A summoning.”
― The Sirens
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