Drown Quotes

“I brought you here to tell you this: sometimes what we are searching for does not exist. We may sacrifice for it, even bleed for it, but it was never meant to be ours.”
― Esther Dalseno, Drown

“However, she was not a rational woman, and she did not reconsider.”
― Esther Dalseno, Drown: A Twisted Take on the Classic Fairy Tale

“Everybody made faces around here. Human beings, she discovered, could not maintain the stony, frozen expressions of the merfolk, not for an instant. There was not a moment where their faces remained blank. There was always a light in their eye, and the light, like red wind, would flare into a raging fire without notice.”
― Esther Dalseno, Drown

“The woman looked at her heart in all of its fragments. Its voice was clear and true as it reminded her of the injustices done to it. Nothing so forlorn and broken could lie to her — could it? However, the woman was not a rational woman, and did not heed the beings’ warning. “Strip my humanity away, that I may never again walk in the race of men,” was her one wish.”
― Esther Dalseno, Drown

“Thus the little mermaid learned her world’s greatest paradox: that their currency was beauty, and their coin was body parts.”
― Esther Dalseno, Drown

“It seemed only right that beauty was the key to the industry, and the sacrificing of beauty to buy possessions seemed only fair to her evolving mind.”
― Esther Dalseno, Drown

“Sometimes when we watch something from afar, it can seem so perfect. We crave that thing simply because we cannot have it. Instantly, it gains an exoticism. Finally, when we see it face-to-face, we realise that this thing we have worshipped and idolised for so long is riddled with flaws. We were just too far away to see it clearly.”
― Esther Dalseno, Drown

“Music, it seemed, could appear in many voices, and had all of the emotions and array of vocabulary as a human..”
― Esther Dalseno, Drown

“But if the Prince does not fall in love with you, your heart will break. The moment your heart breaks, then you, like all of your beloved humans, will die. Your body will become the foam on the waves. And this is not part of the spell,” she added, “it’s a part of the human condition. Ironic, no?”
― Esther Dalseno, Drown