Status Updates From Flowers for the Sea

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“This is an affliction . I have been damned to be a mere host to a parasite who promises not salvation but burden. This thing will be the death of me, Ket. The death of all of us.”

“ Hirat’s visits dwindled once he understood his presence served nothing but annoyance for me. In that, he is oversimplifying; though it vexes me that he is celebrated for this
pregnancy while I am shunned, I despise everyone on this ship, including
the parasite within me. Solitude isn’t what I want, it is the release of death”

“ The Prince’s gaze was cloying, his teeth stained moss-green. I
slapped his hand away and he slapped my face. I laughed and he had his
bodyguard flog me in centre square.”

I’m loving the writing style so far, and also this quote hits hard dude
“They deemed us blasphemers of their church, we who did not need their gods to employ our gifts.”

“They say fire cleanses all. In this, I begrudge being spared by the first men to cleanse my family’s history”

“ i still breathe the air of the last of us. I am insistence personified, and the spite I draw is my sustenance. “

Listening to the sex scene while at my desk at work
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This is reminding me of The Deep by Rivers Solomon already but this is better because it was written by a woman assdfggjjkl