Nancy Gomes

“And well, I suppose that’s partly why I don’t have much faith in the notion of permanence. Anything can be taken from you at any moment. Even the past isn’t guaranteed. You can lose that too, slowly, like water eating away at stone.”
― Ava Reid, 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.”
― Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning

“There's very little worse than when our heroes fail us, is there?”
― Ava Reid, 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.”
― Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning