# Our Wives Under The Sea
URL:: https://www.kobo.com/ebook/our-wives-under-the-sea
Author:: Julia Armfield
## Highlights
> I used to think there was such a thing as emptiness, that there were places in the world one could go and be alone. This, I think, is still true, but the error in my reasoning was to assume that alone was somewhere you could go, rather than somewhere you had to be left
> The problem with relationships between women is that neither one of you is automatically the wronged party, which frankly takes a lot of the fun out of an argument.
> Visiting her brought with it the implication that you regarded her as lonely, failing to visit her was an insult all its own.
> To know the ocean, I have always felt, is to recognise the teeth it keeps half hidden
> Poppy’s all right, she just likes people to know.
> Creatures that live this deep are frequently solitary and only infrequently seen. There are big things down here, old things, and certainly more of them than we know about. Almost every piloted dive to these depths has uncovered something new.
> a drifting anomaly of matter, solid and yet not quite so, spread out beyond the doom bar.
> . If you’ve got breath enough to scream, as my father said, you’re not drowning, and so I held my breath and thought about screaming and imagined the ocean coming to an end.
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Title: Our Wives Under The Sea
Author: Julia Armfield
Tags: readwise, books
date: 2024-01-30
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# Our Wives Under The Sea
URL:: https://www.kobo.com/ebook/our-wives-under-the-sea
Author:: Julia Armfield
## AI-Generated Summary
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## Highlights
> I used to think there was such a thing as emptiness, that there were places in the world one could go and be alone. This, I think, is still true, but the error in my reasoning was to assume that alone was somewhere you could go, rather than somewhere you had to be left
> The problem with relationships between women is that neither one of you is automatically the wronged party, which frankly takes a lot of the fun out of an argument.
> Visiting her brought with it the implication that you regarded her as lonely, failing to visit her was an insult all its own.
> To know the ocean, I have always felt, is to recognise the teeth it keeps half hidden
> Poppy’s all right, she just likes people to know.
> Creatures that live this deep are frequently solitary and only infrequently seen. There are big things down here, old things, and certainly more of them than we know about. Almost every piloted dive to these depths has uncovered something new.
> a drifting anomaly of matter, solid and yet not quite so, spread out beyond the doom bar.
> . If you’ve got breath enough to scream, as my father said, you’re not drowning, and so I held my breath and thought about screaming and imagined the ocean coming to an end.