because i can’t stop thinking about that one line (well, let’s not pretend it’s just the one line lol) in chapter 26 of crooked kingdom: “She reached for the shears, graceful as always, a girl underwater, and offered them to him handle first.”
it’s just so tender!! i love the way kaz sees inej and describes her as a girl underwater, even though his trauma is linked to water…
“What do you do from morning to night?” “I endure myself.”
E. M. Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born, tr. Richard Howard
Emily Brontë, from “Wuthering Heights”
written on the body, jeanette winterson
The Little Mermaid is a bronze statue by Edvard Eriksen, depicting a mermaid becoming human. The sculpture is displayed on a rock by the waterside at the Langelinie promenade in Copenhagen, Denmark.
art parallels
jeremy lipking, federico zandomeneghi, serge marshennikov, allan douglas davidson, svetlana tartakovska
Jenny Hval, from Girls Against God
Virginia Woolf, from The Waves