“Hope was for children and simpletons. Hope was for those...

“Hope was for children and simpletons. Hope was for those who were awaiting rescue. And she wasn’t, not any more. She would rescue herself, or she would drown.

He had forgotten to teach her how to swim as well.”

-M.C. Frank, Hooked (Retold)

-excerpt from Hooked, part of the Retold anthology

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