India Morgan Phelps — Imp to her friends — is schizophrenic. Struggling with her perceptions of reality, Imp must uncover the truth about her encounters with creatures out of myth — or from something far, far stranger...
(From Goodreads.)
Was it a mermaid, a werewolf
or both? Imp tells the story of her hauntings, and it might haunt you
as well. Here are some quotes from the book.
Quotes from The Drowning
Girl by Caitlín R. Kiernan
There's always a siren, singing you to
shipwreck. Some of us may be more susceptible than others are, but
there's always a siren.
Sirens are intrusive thoughts that even sane
men and women have.
Eva has no reflection. “What was I to do? He
sunk me in the green water below the bridge. They made a violin out
of my breastbone. They made tuning pegs from my fingers. In the
winter, I lay below the ice and the sky was silver and glass.”
I even thought about calling her, but chickened
out. Verily, I'm an invertebrate. Spineless.
The genius is not in having made the
association, but in the execution.
Don't leave out anything relevant, no matter
how mundane it might feel.
“Nothing is ever straightforward,” Imp
typed, “though we lose a lot of truth by pretending it's so.”
“You fancied? No one actually says
they fancied.”
“Language is a poor enough means of
communication as it is,” I told her. “So we should use all the
words we have.” It wasn't really an original thought; I was
paraphrasing Spencer Trace from Inherit the Wind.
Housed there within its protective shell of
pale stone, the library seems as precious and frail as a
nonagenarian. Its smell is the musty commingling fragrance of
yellowing pages and dust and ancient wood. To me, the smells of
comfort and safety. It smells sacred.
Normal is a bitter pill that we rail
against.
She doesn't forget these things. Maybe people
do. Maybe the birds come back and shellfish come back, and no one
tells tourists what happened here. But the sea remembers. The
memory of sea encompasses eons.
The Drowning Girl - Trailer
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