Suzy C

“For seventeen years, I’ve done everything I can to downplay my own womanhood. I cut my curls to my ears. Dressed in dirty slacks. Took swigs of rum whenever Omar wasn’t looking. Hauled barrels until my arms bulged with muscle. It’s a game of camouflage. How quickly can I absorb a man’s lifestyle? How thoroughly can I blend in? How long does it take to make them forget my womanhood altogether?”
― Emma V. R. Noyes, The Sunken City

“But the truth is this: the whole world is dangerous for young women like me. There was only one place the Captain trusted I would be safe, and that was the sea.”
― Emma V. R. Noyes, The Sunken City

“To ruin me would take just one word: witch. A whisper from one man to another. A curse upon my name, to be passed about the ship like a bottle of rum. A rumor that would surely end with my dead body being tossed into the sea.”
― Emma V. R. Noyes, The Sunken City

“If all the world is hell and evil is all around them, what else can they do but try to help each other?”
― Kiersten White, Hide