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“An illusion." She stared at the faux leather. "Fear is an illusion to keep us from our full potential. It's what traps Dredgers so they can't be free. What traps us in within their nightmares. But a nightmare is an illusion of what could be. Not what is. Once the fear is gone, it's not a nightmare anymore.”
― Lines Between Stars
― Lines Between Stars
“She was starting to believe they were the same thing. When humans wanted each other, they were all mouths and teeth, desire and satisfaction. Miriam wanted Esther in that way, also. She didn't see the need to distinguish between lust and love, consumption and devotion. Miriam loved her. She wanted her life and her death and each bloody beat of her heart in between.”
― As Many Souls as Stars
― As Many Souls as Stars
“I love you," she said, "and I hate you, more than I have ever hated anyone. I see it now: you must love someone to truly hate them. They must give you something before they can take it away.”
― As Many Souls as Stars
― As Many Souls as Stars
“Grief is like a splinter too deep underneath your skin to remove. At first, it is a sharp pain. Then a dull one that only bites when you press it. But you endure. You shape your new self around it, and you learn to survive. Eventually, they tell me you'll learn to thrive.”
― What the Sea Brings
― What the Sea Brings
“Esther felt as if she were ripe fruit, about to burst its skin, a cloud about to rain, and she was so undone, so confused, so exhausted of feeling constantly on the edge of something without actually reaching it.”
― As Many Souls as Stars
― As Many Souls as Stars
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