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“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.”
― The Names
― The Names
“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
“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
“We're all capable of good and bad. Very few of us show our real faces to the world. For fear that the world might stare back and scream.”
― The Other People
― The Other People
“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
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