Susan

“It was the water that protected me. It's the water that makes us strong.”
― Emilia Hart, The Sirens

“She's 68 now, and although she knows the idea of being put out to pasture is a phrase others associate with obsolescence and redundancy, for her it conjures lushes green fields filled with buttercups where she's free to roam.”
― Florence Knapp, The Names

“I was looking for it," Eliza said. "For the tír fo thuinn. The land beneath the waves."
As if she might find Mam there, like the merrow from her childish story.”
― Emilia Hart, The Sirens

“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.”
― Emilia Hart, The Sirens