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“It’s just another way of thinking you’re special, the way everyone does when they’re a teenager. You think you aren’t able to love, except of course you are. You think you aren’t able to love correctly or the same as everyone else, except that of course you are, you just haven’t had a chance to do it yet. You’re not special, you’re just waiting.”
— Jul 25, 2026 09:17PM
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“The reason you get heartburn”, she used to say, “is because you’re letting your whole body squeeze you too tight”.
— Jul 25, 2026 10:55PM
Emily Durrant
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In my head, I think I’m often telling Miri stories, logging away information or things I’ve seen in order to tell her about them later. Even trapped as I was down there, I was still doing this: taking everything in with one eye on how to recount it. I think I’ve trained myself to look at things this way, as if for her as well as me.
— Jul 25, 2026 09:08PM
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I remember the way that she looked at me, the open surge of her gaze, like something she’d invented, brought to life by powers of electricity and set down there, in the last of the light.
— Jul 25, 2026 06:28PM
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“To know the ocean, I have always felt, is to recognise the teeth it keeps half hidden”
— Jul 24, 2026 09:50PM