Tiara

“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

“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

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