Quotes from The Witch of Salt and Storm

“The sky would be clear, colorless, mist blending together the air and the ocean, the waves whispering against the rocks.”
― Kendall Kulper, quote from The Witch of Salt and Storm

“The ocean turns cold, dark, pressing around me, but the deeper I go the more the iron inside of me twists and pulls and I know that I’m tethered to the boat, that even now the men pull the rope tighter and drag me back to the surface.”
― Kendall Kulper, quote from The Witch of Salt and Storm

“I am swimming and it is just sunrise, the sky so gray as to be almost invisible. I rise to the surface to breathe and that’s when I see the dark shadow of a boat, gliding gently toward me in the water. Men ride in the boat, their faces grim and greedy and silent, and as I turn to watch them I feel a bite in my side, a piercing pain.”
― Kendall Kulper, quote from The Witch of Salt and Storm

“Cursed, I was cursed, and my mother said she’d given up magic for good, said it was a terrible thing, but she wasn’t above using it to keep me at her side, and she’s a hypocrite, a liar, a fraud and phony, and I hate her I hate her I hate her!”
― Kendall Kulper, quote from The Witch of Salt and Storm

“I was sixteen, still my mother’s prisoner, the night I became the whale.”
― Kendall Kulper, quote from The Witch of Salt and Storm

“I stretched out on the carpet, eyes glazed over, my heart whirring with frustration and fear, and as my mother’s curse slowly, firmly, pushed my eyelids closed, my body went still. But on the inside I was screaming.”
― Kendall Kulper, quote from The Witch of Salt and Storm

“Just because it's common doesn't make it less powerful.”
― Kendall Kulper, quote from The Witch of Salt and Storm

“This will be the night I escape. The thought repeated in my mind like a refrain, over and over, and I believed it so hard that I whispered it aloud: ‘This will be the night I escape!”
― Kendall Kulper, quote from The Witch of Salt and Storm

“Panic reared up through me, hot and blazing and blurry, and that was it.”
― Kendall Kulper, quote from The Witch of Salt and Storm

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