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In French, there’s a phrase for the random urge to jump from high places, the irrational desire to swerve into traffic despite imminent destruction: l'appel du vide, the call of the void. Those sudden feral impulses tend to be shoved away
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“In some way, she had always yearned for this, to slip through the final crack in the world. But she has a rope to teether her now, and walls that stood, and a foundation that was strong.”
― A Study in Drowning
― A Study in Drowning
“Effy found herself half in love with the Fairy King sometimes, too. The tender belly of his cruelty made her heart flutter. There was an intimacy to all violence, she supposed. The better you knew someone, the more terribly you could hurt them.”
― A Study in Drowning
― A Study in Drowning
“Maybe the perfection of his furnishings was trying to compensate for something. A well-ordered house for a decaying mind.”
― A Study in Drowning
― A Study in Drowning
“There was a small prickle of grief when she thought about it, how perhaps she and Preston would never see eye to eye. But he believed her fear, her grief, her desire. That had to be enough.”
― A Study in Drowning
― A Study in Drowning
“I passed so many sleepless nights wondering how I could ever escape him. And yet I found the true fetters were the ones of my own creation. Those nights I kept circling the same ancient questions…The questions were powerful magic indeed, for they kept me trapped there, motionless…Until I broke the spell my mind has cast, I could never be free.”
― A Study in Drowning
― A Study in Drowning
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