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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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“There's very little worse than when our heroes fail us, is there?”
― 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’ve read your book a hundred times, maybe ore. It was a friend when I didn’t have any. IT was the only thing that said I was sane while the world was telling me I was mad. It saved me in more ways that I can count. Because I knew no matter how afraid I felt, I wasn’t truly alone.”
― A Study in Drowning
― A Study in Drowning
“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.”
― A Study in Drowning
― A Study in Drowning
“The Fairy King had many forms, and some looked on the surface, identical. Some days, I could not tell if the husband who came to me was the one who would kiss my eyes closed with infinite tenderness, or if he would press me down into our bed and not care that I whimpered. Those were the more difficult days. When I could not tell the kind version of him from cruel. I wished he would be a serpent, a cloven-footed creature, a winged beast –anything but a man.”
― A Study in Drowning
― A Study in Drowning
Nancy’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Nancy’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
95 books
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521 books
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469 books
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598 books
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51 friends
1,003 books
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79 friends
551 books
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86 friends
38 books
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157 friends
23 books
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91 friends
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