Colubrina
Chapter 6: Devising Myriad Plots
Children, Miss Granger, are a treasure beyond price. When we turn our backs on them, consign them to orphanages, reject them from our homes, we poison the roots of our own culture.
Colubrina
Chapter 6: Devising Myriad Plots
Children, Miss Granger, are a treasure beyond price. When we turn our backs on them, consign them to orphanages, reject them from our homes, we poison the roots of our own culture.
Colubrina
Chapter Thirteen: The Wedding
“You remind me of the ocean," she finally says. "before a storm when everything feels taut, when the air smells of rain that hasn't come yet, when the grey of the clouds and the grey of the water stretch out forever in front of you."
He listens to her breathe, feels the warmth of her pressed up against him. "Is that good?" he asks after a while.
"I love the ocean," she says simply.