Ariadne: The Brilliant Feminist Debut that Everyone is Talking About

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invective

undulating

But as I studied him – and believe me, I drank him in like a parched animal at a riverbank – I began to see the cold, steady certainty of the chill green depths.

indignities

eked

I know that human life shines more brightly because it is but a shimmering candle against an eternity of darkness and it can be extinguished with the faintest breeze.’

No longer was my world one of brave heroes; I was learning all too swiftly the women’s pain that throbbed unspoken through the tales of their feats.

Was this my punishment? To live the reality of my dream and find out that its glittering beauty faded to nothing when I stepped close?