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Alcohol is a byproduct of plants, and we are immune to its effect.”
We’re just trying to survive so much of the time that I think we forget to live.
“How is it that some of us have no time left and others have more than anyone could ever truly need? It’s not fair.”
Marie glanced down the hall, then back to Phillip. “I should fold you in half and put you in a suitcase. Then I should take the suitcase and run it over with my car.”
Marie is my absolute fav!
When Persephone was abducted by Hades, Demeter—Persephone’s mother—tasked her closest friends with finding her daughter. But they couldn’t search the sea, so Demeter gave them tails like fish so they could look for her. That’s how sirens came into existence, and over time they grew to be vengeful, dangerous creatures.”
“I couldn’t let these mer-hos just take you away,” I said. “I don’t wanna have to tell people you left me for a fish.”
It was the reality I never knew I wanted, but that Mom and Mo had somehow been able to prepare me for, a blending of the past, the present, and the future. Not a choice between any of them but the combined joys and sorrows of each in their own way. I was the seed set in the soil, nurtured by the love of my family, and allowed to grow, to stretch, to reach for the sun.
We had this one precious life and what we did with it was entirely up to us. I wanted to use it to love and be loved in return.
