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256 pages, Paperback
First published September 12, 2023
“That should have been the end of it. But when do mediocre men ever go away quietly?”
“Outside, the rain was repeating us, saying my words to the pavement: please, please.”
“She was drawn to these books—girls with powers, girls who were monstrous, girls who had the potential to be terrible and violent things.”
“You can feel the internal prayer the woman recites, hoping he will come.”
“If I drown in this ocean tell my mother I’m still angry
If I drown in this ocean tell my body it’s okay to rest.”
“Being the worse girl means, at least, I'll be remembered”
“If she wanted either of us to be that kind of daughter, she should have been that kind of mother.”
“I always thought evil hung in the sky above our heads, the black whorl of it, a portal to darkness. That’s where storms came from—when the evil got too great and God had to release some of it down on us. We had to pay a little bit for it.”
“They ask me where I have been, and I tell them travelling. They understand that. They have grown through the dark themselves.”
“We die; we leave ghosts of ourselves behind. Voices on answering machines, bodies on video, fragments of souls in handwriting.”