Rolling in the Deep Quotes

“You're a miracle," he breathed.
"You're a miracle," the mermaid echoed, before it leaned up and carefully, almost delicately, ripped away his throat.”
― Mira Grant, Rolling in the Deep

“Leave the dark places in the sea for fools and explorers.”
― Mira Grant, Rolling in the Deep

“Humanity destroys the things it loves. Something mysterious and unique enough to be the source of mermaid legends? We’re going to be all over destroying that.”
― Mira Grant, Rolling in the Deep

“Was there any reason in the world to expect a deep-sea predator with that many teeth to be friendly?”
― Mira Grant, Rolling in the Deep

“We said ‘pretty women in the sea,’ and that was good enough, because who doesn’t want there to be pretty women in the sea? We turned monsters into myths, and then we turned them into fairy tales. We dismissed the bad parts. We were too interested in…in…in pretty women in the sea.”
― Mira Grant, Rolling in the Deep

“Never ask a mermaid if you can borrow her tail.”
― Mira Grant, Rolling in the Deep

“It was beautiful. He thought he had never seen anything so beautiful in all his life; that, having seen it, he could die content, knowing that he would never see anything so beautiful again. He wished he could have seen it for longer. More, he wished he could have taken it apart, studied it all the way down to its bones, and then built it back up again. Dissection without death, discovery without destruction.”
― Mira Grant, Rolling in the Deep

“We do pool parties and aquarium fundraisers and the occasional water park event, and every time we put on our tails and put ourselves on display for a bunch of people who want us to be real, we’re dragging the human race a little closer to remembering what it’s like to believe in happy endings.”
― Mira Grant, Rolling in the Deep

“Alien eyes watched the strange metal object as it floated upward. There was blood in the water. Their home had been invaded. They would respond.”
― Mira Grant, Rolling in the Deep

“I’m a sea captain. I can afford to be a little eccentric.”
― Mira Grant, Rolling in the Deep

“Food scarcity was not uncommon in the bathypelagic zones, and so they had learned to come up to the surface, to lure in prey with pleasant sounds as well as bright, fascinating lights.”
― Mira Grant, Rolling in the Deep

“We’ve found—us as a collective troupe, and Teal and Jess individually—that people talk one way to a woman who doesn’t stand up because she’s a mermaid, and another way to a woman who doesn’t stand up because her legs are not quite up to factory standards.”
― Mira Grant, Rolling in the Deep

“It was a constant parade of little tasks, none of them insignificant enough to ignore, all of them inconvenient enough to become a trial.”
― Mira Grant, Rolling in the Deep

“Being a mermaid might seem like all fun and games, but it was a job like any other.”
― Mira Grant, Rolling in the Deep

“There was something about seeing a woman rise up out of the depths that could thaw the skepticism of even the most hardened heart.”
― Mira Grant, Rolling in the Deep

“Science was competitive because it was full of scientists.”
― Mira Grant, Rolling in the Deep

“The inquiry into what happened on the Atargatis is still ongoing.”
― Mira Grant, Rolling in the Deep

“Magnify that moment by ten, and you have a kid meeting their first mermaid. We do pool parties and aquarium fundraisers and the occasional water park event, and every time we put on our tails and put ourselves on display for a bunch of people who want us to be real, we’re dragging the human race a little closer to remembering what it’s like to believe in happy endings.”
― Mira Grant, Rolling in the Deep

“The Imagine Network has already agreed to pay the FAA fines for this one-time display of the unedited footage,”
― Mira Grant, Rolling in the Deep