Across the Great Ocean Quotes

“Laago is as free as the wind that blows through your hair.”
― Virginia Mary, Across the Great Ocean: Awakening

“The truth is always revealed, even if it is just in the shadows.”
― Virginia Mary, Across the Great Ocean: Awakening

“Men often like to pretend their weaknesses don't exist, as if they are gods. But who would want to be a god? I would rather be a shag lion in a field, with no worry but my next meal, than to an all-knowing being with the weight of the sun and the stars on my shoulders.”
― Virginia Mary, Across the Great Ocean: Awakening

“My brother was a shell of his former self, his heart deeply scarred from everything we had endured.”
― Virginia Mary, Across the Great Ocean: Awakening

“The loudes person in the room was rarely the most intelligent, and more often, the opposite.”
― Virginia Mary, Across the Great Ocean: Awakening

“Even a tree has roots, but that cannot keep it's acorns from being swept away by strong winds. If all acorns fell in the same spot, a forest could never grow.”
― Virginia Mary, Across the Great Ocean: Awakening

“Since when does law equate to morality?”
― Virginia Mary, Across the Great Ocean: Awakening

“...us lazing around and indulging in gluttony while we chide those who do the same in ignorance was the deepest level of hypocrisy.”
― Virginia Mary, Across the Great Ocean: Awakening

“If you stood in the hole that my people are trapped in, you would drown too.”
― Virginia Mary, Across the Great Ocean: Awakening

“Only a soul unburdened by the weight of mortality would stand before death without fear nor worry.”
― Virginia Mary, Across the Great Ocean: Awakening

“The girl who once stood in my boots was gone, with pieces of her scattered across the Great Ocean. All that remained was a cold and ruthless shell of what once breathed.”
― Virginia Mary, Across the Great Ocean: Awakening

“A golden eagle does not need a crown to rule the sky.”
― Virginia Mary, Across the Great Ocean: Awakening

“You always know how to tread water, even in a flood. Meanwhile, I can't even stay afloat in a drizzle.”
― Virginia Mary, Across the Great Ocean: Awakening

“Sometimes, I fear that the only time I will not be utterly consumed by worry is when I lay dead.”
― Virginia Mary, Across the Great Ocean: Awakening

“The desire for gold trumps the honor of many.”
― Virginia Mary, Across the Great Ocean: Awakening

“I don't need a fancy title to do what is right. And title or not, I am a young woman in an old man's world. The only way I'll ever gain respect is if I take it, something none of you here would understand.”
― Virginia Mary, Across the Great Ocean: Awakening

“Ten good men could build a town and a thousand could build an empire, but it only took one to burn it all down.”
― Virginia Mary, Across the Great Ocean: Awakening

“A brother's advice should be how to skip a rock or how to sneak out without your parents knowing - not how to survive starvation and persecution.”
― Virginia Mary, Across the Great Ocean: Awakening

“Though the child in me longed for a place of true peace and prosperity, the part of me that had looked death in the eyes knew it to be a false hope, for there cannot be light without shadow.”
― Virginia Mary, Across the Great Ocean: Awakening

“I am no fool-
And I would not waste my breath on one.”
― Virginia Mary, Across the Great Ocean: Awakening

“As long as there is a night full of stars, we will never lose our way.”
― Virginia Mary, Across the Great Ocean: Awakening

“Do you want me to go insane?
Yeah I could use some company.”
― Virginia Mary, Across the Great Ocean: Awakening

“Sometimes it feels as though I have spent more time reading than living.”
― Virginia Mary, Across the Great Ocean: Awakening

“Like a meteor drifting through space, we were surrounded by both everything and nothing at once.”
― Virginia Mary, Across the Great Ocean: Awakening

“We were alone in a world had taken so much from us, struggling to hold onto hope amidst the wreckage that remained.”
― Virginia Mary, Across the Great Ocean: Awakening