The Deep End of the Sea Quotes

“I run. I kick. I punch. I listen. I write. I give.
I live.
Stars above, I live.”
― Heather Lyons, The Deep End of the Sea

“I am a monster. The worst kind of monster. The kind that people have told stories about for thousands of years. The kind that daredevils like poor Walt seek out, even though many believe I’m nothing more than a myth.”
― Heather Lyons, The Deep End of the Sea

“Our faces are so close to one another right now, and all I can do is selfishly think how easy it would be for me to lean forward and kiss him like I’ve dreamed about for the last couple of weeks. One kiss, and then I’d let him go.

One kiss, to replace the one stolen from me.

This would be my first kiss, not what happened with Poseidon. Because a kiss should be born from love, and want, and need. A kiss should be beautiful, something a girl can hold onto for the rest of her life, to pull out in her memory whenever she wants butterflies to come back. A kiss shouldn’t be roughly ripped away from her and turned into a thing of nightmares.”
― Heather Lyons, The Deep End of the Sea

“Thus, not only am I a monster, I'm a really lousy one. A lonely, classic Five Stages of Grief following, insecure, shut-in of a pathetic beast who talks to the snakes on her head and the statues on her island.”
― Heather Lyons, The Deep End of the Sea

“For the first time in two thousand plus years, time stands still. I pray it stays that way, because this moment here?

Divine.”
― Heather Lyons, The Deep End of the Sea

“The truth is, yes, you were... altered for many years. But I think the worst thing you could do is pretend like it never happened. It did. Sometimes, terrible, awful things happen to people, things you can't predict or wish for differently that happen just the same. But you can't let them consume you. You can't wish it away. All you can do is pray you've learned from it, that it's made you stronger, and that you will move on. I bought this dress because it's beautiful, but also because it's you. I felt like if you wore it, embraced who you are and what you've been and done... it will help you move on.”
― Heather Lyons, The Deep End of the Sea

“And it sucks. It genuinely, truly, absolutely, unequivocally sucks.”
― Heather Lyons, The Deep End of the Sea

“Time doesn't heal; or at least, it hasn't healed such wounds for me, no matter what i told him earlier. Time is just another captor of mine.
-Medusa”
― Heather Lyons, The Deep End of the Sea

“And then he left her, broken and bloody on the floor.”
― Heather Lyons, The Deep End of the Sea

“Women, men, children, old, young, straight, gay ... violence is not picky when it comes to its victims. And it’s distressing, thinking of these other people, faceless yet dear to me. We are part of a group no sane person wants to join, and yet we are members anyway. We come from every walk of life, of every race and religion. There is no way to exit the group once we’ve joined; all we can do is try not to let it define us.”
― Heather Lyons, The Deep End of the Sea