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“And it felt good to be uncontained, the way a bird must feel when it realizes that the thing constraining it was nothing more than an eggshell - delicate and fragile, and just waiting to be cracked open.”
― Kelly Barnhill, When Women Were Dragons

“We must discuss, then, the relationship between women and water. When men fall into the sea, they drown. When women meet the water, they transform. It becomes vital to ask: is this a metamorphosis, or a homecoming?”
― Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning

“But if fairies and monsters were real, so were the women who defeated them.”
― Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning

“All women are magic. Literally all of us. It's in our nature.”
― Kelly Barnhill, When Women Were Dragons