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as if she were setting a glass down on a table and didn’t want it to make a discordant sound.
“The only reason anything matters is because it ends,” he says. “I wouldn’t hold you so tightly now if I thought we could be here forever.”
That things are only beautiful because they don’t last. Full moons, flowers in bloom, you. But if any of that is evidence, I think it must be true.”
Fear of the sea is fear of the eternal—because how can you win against something so enduring.
Permanence was dangerous. It had always felt like a trap.
Salt and salt and salt.
Aging, Effy realized, was the opposite of alchemy.
Her body remembered what it felt like to be afraid so well that it would take time, a long time, to teach it something new.
“Every wanting man has that same wound he can use to slip in.
“All of that wasn’t to keep the Fairy King away. It was to keep him trapped here.”
There’s no story to memorize, no lines that need repeating. There’s only the truth.”
The truth was very costly at times.
How terrible, to navigate the world without a story to comfort you.
