Yukti M

“The weight of a memory is one thing. You get very used to swimming with it dragging you down. Once it's loosed, you hardly know what to do with you body. You don't understand its lightness" [348-349]”
― Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning

“You're not just one thing. Survival is something you do not something you are. You're brave and brilliant. You're the most real, full person I've ever met.”
― Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning

“It saved me in more ways than I can count. Because I knew no matter how afraid I felt, I wasn't truly alone.
Angharad's eyes were shining now, too. "That's all I wanted, you know," she said. "When I was young-when I was your age.
I wanted just one girl, only one, to read my book and feel that she was understood, and I would be understood in return. Writing that book was like shining a beacon from a lighthouse, I suppose.
Are there any ships on the horizon? Will they signal back to me? I never got the chance to know. My husband's name was all over it, and his was the only ship I could see."
"I saw it," Effy whispered. "I see it. And it saved me.”
― Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning

“You don't have to take up a sword. Survival is bravery, too.”
― Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning