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“Just because it's common doesn't make it less powerful.”
“I am going to be murdered.It wasnt any easier to face in the daytime.”
“I am going to be murdered.It wasn’t any easier to face in the daytime.”
“I was sixteen, still my mothers prisoner, the night I became the whale.”
“I was sixteen, still my mother’s prisoner, the night I became the whale.”
“The sky would be clear, colorless, mist blending together the air and the ocean, the waves whispering against the rocks.”
“Cursed, I was cursed, and my mother said shed given up magic for good, said it was a terrible thing, but she wasnt above using it to keep me at her side, and shes a hypocrite, a liar, a fraud and p...”
“I stretched out on the carpet, eyes glazed over, my heart whirring with frustration and fear, and as my mothers curse slowly, firmly, pushed my eyelids closed, my body went still. But on the inside...”
“This will be the night I escape. The thought repeated in my mind like a refrain, over and over, and I believed it so hard that I whispered it aloud: This will be the night I escape!”
“I am swimming and it is just sunrise, the sky so gray as to be almost invisible. I rise to the surface to breathe and thats when I see the dark shadow of a boat, gliding gently toward me in the wat...”
“Hope that silly, stupid creature that lived within me, no matter how often I tried to beat it to death lifted its nose and sniffed at the air.”
“The ocean turns cold, dark, pressing around me, but the deeper I go the more the iron inside of me twists and pulls and I know that Im tethered to the boat, that even now the men pull the rope tigh...”
“Cursed, I was cursed, and my mother said she’d given up magic for good, said it was a terrible thing, but she wasn’t above using it to keep me at her side, and she’s a hypocrite, a liar, a fraud an...”
“Hope – that silly, stupid creature that lived within me, no matter how often I tried to beat it to death – lifted its nose and sniffed at the air.”
