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“But something changes after tragedy,” she says. “It’s like you’ve spent your whole life putting one foot in front of the other, knowing the ground would always be there to meet you, and then suddenly, one day… it isn’t. The bottom has dropped out. The unbelievable happens and you just… fall.”
― How to Be Eaten
― How to Be Eaten
“There is a trail of anger flowing through my bloodline, from my great-grandmother, to my grandmother, to my mother, to me.”
― The Harpy
― The Harpy
“sometimes people and places serve a purpose for a finite amount of time to help you think and grow and love and then you move on.”
― How High We Go in the Dark
― How High We Go in the Dark
“What if, for some of us, moving on involves finding good in the bad? Or being thankful for how we changed? That doesn't mean we wished it to happen.”
― How to Be Eaten
― How to Be Eaten
“We came from the ocean, and we only survive by carrying salt water with us all our lives—in our blood, in our cells. The sea is our true home. This is why we find the shore so calming: we stand where the waves break, like exiles returning home.”
― The Mountain in the Sea
― The Mountain in the Sea
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