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“She drew back from his embrace so she could look into his eyes, her own swimming with tears. The uncertainty in her face nearly…

— Sarah Mayberry

“She knew she couldn’t escape unscathed, and the trauma would take her a long time to get past. And she might never fully heal…

— Cheyenne McCray

“Something clamped tight inside her suddenly eased. He had been right. She did not have to grip her pain. She could let it go.…

— Robin Hobb

“She was tired of being afraid, so impossibly weary of her own fears that a part of her wanted to sit on the quite…

— John Shors

“Then he clambered into the boat. Oh, and the beauty of the subjection of his loins, white and dimly luminous as he climbed over…

— D. H. Lawrence

“The water was everywhere. It was soaking her clothes and in her ears and burning her eyes. It wrapped around her like a cocoon,…

— Jacqueline Green

“She wasn't totally unaware of herself, though. She knew there was pain, but in the same way she knew the sun was hot. It…

— Amber Argyle

“She understood suffering and she knew it was a place she could not follow, not unless she wanted to drown too.”

— Leigh Bardugo

“Before, there had been this small, shiny thing inside her that kept her immune from what was happening, and now she knew it had…

— Tatjana Soli

“They knew, though, she would not suffer as they had suffered. She was perfect. They were scarred.”

— Francesca Lia Block

“I don't know what she was—anything that no one ever saw, and everything that everybody ever wanted. I was swallowed up in an abyss…

— Charles Dickens

“She was a wild ocean. And he had always seen people giving up while trying to swim in her and swim back to the…

— Akshay Vasu