“I was a woman when it was convenient to blame me, and a girl when they wanted to use me.”
―
Ava Reid,
A Study in Drowning
“That was the cruelest irony: the more you did to save yourself, the less you became a person worth saving.” ― Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning
“My eldest sister was right; I would smile blithely if someone tried to saw off my leg. But no one ever told me I was allowed to scream” ― Ava Reid, Juniper & Thorn
“All that talk of quiet obedience is for their benefit, not yours. They don't have to go to the effort of striking you down if you're already on your knees.” ― Ava Reid, The Wolf and the Woodsman
“If it is a choice between drowning in the same river that has dragged me down a thousand times or walking into a pit of fire that had never burned me once, I will choose the flames and learn to bear it.” ― Ava Reid, The Wolf and the Woodsman
“It began as all things did: a girl on the shore, terrified and desirous.” ― Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning
“How terrible, to navigate the world without a story to comfort you.” ― Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning
“We must discuss, then, the relationship between women and water. When men fall into the sea, they drown. When women meet the water, they transform. It becomes vital to ask: is this a metamorphosis, or a homecoming?” ― Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning
“I wish I had fought.” Effy surprised herself by saying it. The words had leaped out of her throat, unbidden. “I know I beat him in the end, but for so many years all I could do was run and hide. I just sat there and let the water pour in around me. I didn’t know that I could fight back. I didn’t know how to do anything but wait to drown.” “Oh no, Effy. That’s not what I meant at all. You don’t have to take up a sword. Survival is bravery, too.” ― Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning
“If there is anyone I would damn my soul for,” Gáspár says, “it would be you.” ― Ava Reid, The Wolf and the Woodsman
“Effy found herself half in love with the Fairy King sometimes, too. The tender belly of his cruelty made her heart flutter. There was an intimacy to all violence, she supposed. The better you knew someone, the more terribly you could hurt them.” ― Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning
“I will love you to ruination.” ― Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning
“Stories are supposed to live longer than people.” ― Ava Reid, The Wolf and the Woodsman
“What would you have me do?' he asks. 'You have already ruined me.” ― Ava Reid, The Wolf and the Woodsman
“Don’t you see? You can take my heart and liver; split open my belly and eat what’s inside. I would sooner bear it than lose you to those who would call you plain-faced, who makes you kneel and kiss their feet. Do not leave me alone. Do not leave me to lick my wounds like a dog before it’s put down. Do not look at the truth of me and then look away. Please, Marlinchen.” ― Ava Reid, Juniper & Thorn
“I almost laughed. “You would rather me eat your heart than look away in disgust?”“Of course,” he breathed. “Every time.” ― Ava Reid, Juniper & Thorn
“Effy hated that she couldn’t tell right from wrong, safe from unsafe. Her fear had transfigured the entire world. Looking at anything was like trying to glimpse a reflection in a broken mirror, all of it warped and shattered and strange.” ― Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning
“I'd rather die with a blade in my hand, or at least with fire in my heart, than live as the shadow of the shadow.” ― Ava Reid, The Wolf and the Woodsman
“If a story repeated itself so many times over, building itself up brick by brick, did it eventually become the truth? A house with no doors and no windows, offering no escape.” ― Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning
“That was the cruelest irony: the more you did to save yourself, the less you became a person worth saving.” ― Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning
“My eldest sister was right; I would smile blithely if someone tried to saw off my leg. But no one ever told me I was allowed to scream” ― Ava Reid, Juniper & Thorn
“All that talk of quiet obedience is for their benefit, not yours. They don't have to go to the effort of striking you down if you're already on your knees.” ― Ava Reid, The Wolf and the Woodsman
“If it is a choice between drowning in the same river that has dragged me down a thousand times or walking into a pit of fire that had never burned me once, I will choose the flames and learn to bear it.” ― Ava Reid, The Wolf and the Woodsman
“It began as all things did: a girl on the shore, terrified and desirous.” ― Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning
“How terrible, to navigate the world without a story to comfort you.” ― Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning
“We must discuss, then, the relationship between women and water. When men fall into the sea, they drown. When women meet the water, they transform. It becomes vital to ask: is this a metamorphosis, or a homecoming?” ― Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning
“I wish I had fought.” Effy surprised herself by saying it. The words had leaped out of her throat, unbidden. “I know I beat him in the end, but for so many years all I could do was run and hide. I just sat there and let the water pour in around me. I didn’t know that I could fight back. I didn’t know how to do anything but wait to drown.” “Oh no, Effy. That’s not what I meant at all. You don’t have to take up a sword. Survival is bravery, too.” ― Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning
“If there is anyone I would damn my soul for,” Gáspár says, “it would be you.” ― Ava Reid, The Wolf and the Woodsman
“Effy found herself half in love with the Fairy King sometimes, too. The tender belly of his cruelty made her heart flutter. There was an intimacy to all violence, she supposed. The better you knew someone, the more terribly you could hurt them.” ― Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning
“I will love you to ruination.” ― Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning
“Stories are supposed to live longer than people.” ― Ava Reid, The Wolf and the Woodsman
“What would you have me do?' he asks. 'You have already ruined me.” ― Ava Reid, The Wolf and the Woodsman
“Don’t you see? You can take my heart and liver; split open my belly and eat what’s inside. I would sooner bear it than lose you to those who would call you plain-faced, who makes you kneel and kiss their feet. Do not leave me alone. Do not leave me to lick my wounds like a dog before it’s put down. Do not look at the truth of me and then look away. Please, Marlinchen.” ― Ava Reid, Juniper & Thorn
“I almost laughed. “You would rather me eat your heart than look away in disgust?”“Of course,” he breathed. “Every time.” ― Ava Reid, Juniper & Thorn
“Effy hated that she couldn’t tell right from wrong, safe from unsafe. Her fear had transfigured the entire world. Looking at anything was like trying to glimpse a reflection in a broken mirror, all of it warped and shattered and strange.” ― Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning
“I'd rather die with a blade in my hand, or at least with fire in my heart, than live as the shadow of the shadow.” ― Ava Reid, The Wolf and the Woodsman
“If a story repeated itself so many times over, building itself up brick by brick, did it eventually become the truth? A house with no doors and no windows, offering no escape.” ― Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning
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