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Ida Ottesen
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“Who could love a coward?' She had once heard a woman say. Laodamia knew the answer. Someone for whom the alternative is loving a corpse.”
― A Thousand Ships
― A Thousand Ships
“Why should the past be any guarantee of the future?”
― A Thousand Ships
― A Thousand Ships
“Because really, how many cannibalistic giants can one Greek plausibly meet as he sails the open seas?”
― A Thousand Ships
― A Thousand Ships
“How lonely it will be here, when it's just us.”
― Migrations
― Migrations
“Loneliness hardened in Arthur's stomach....
Frequently he could feel his loneliness: he could locate it with his fingers and if pushed too hard, it hurt. If he ate quickly, it hurt. He drank a lot of water, to flush it out, but it never came. He kept expecting to see it after he'd visited the lavatory. Small and blue. Afraid. He did not know what he would do with it. He did not know what he would do without it.”
― The Lamplighters
Frequently he could feel his loneliness: he could locate it with his fingers and if pushed too hard, it hurt. If he ate quickly, it hurt. He drank a lot of water, to flush it out, but it never came. He kept expecting to see it after he'd visited the lavatory. Small and blue. Afraid. He did not know what he would do with it. He did not know what he would do without it.”
― The Lamplighters
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