The Sea Queen Quotes

“Or one time, I’d even managed to restrain my violent temper when a pack of bawdy sailors had kidnapped one of my sea maidens, attempting to rape her. Instead of following my first inclination of sinking their ship, opening up a fissure in the earth so that lava spewed up from its guts and boiled them alive, I instead chopped off their balls, boiled them in onion water, and fed them to Bruce, my pet great white. I was rather proud of myself for that level of restraint.”
― Jovee Winters, The Sea Queen

“To live a life well, to have no regrets, be you fish, maiden, or even a damnable legger. To close your eyes and know that there was peace in the beyond and to smile because now the pain would soon be over and there’d be nothing more beyond that but joy. Yes, there was beauty in death.”
― Jovee Winters, The Sea Queen

“But if I don’t come back in three days, Hades did it, and you should drown him.”
― Jovee Winters, The Sea Queen

“You are not a drop in the ocean. You are an entire ocean in a drop. ~ Rumi”
― Jovee Winters, The Sea Queen

“I love you, Death boy," I whispered.

"And I you, Thalassa, forever, for always, eternally.”
― Jovee Winters, The Sea Queen

“Bruce head butted Hades in the center of his back.

"Is he tasting me?" he asked when Bruce's tail snapped his thigh.

"No. What would give you that idea?" I smiled, slapping at Bruce's head when he opened his massive jaws to take a bite out of Hades' delectable ass.

That was my ass, thank you very much.

"Go find your own ass, Bruce. Now go." I flicked my wrist at him.

His look was grumpy, but Bruce always wore a grumpy look. He took an angry swipe at a passing red horned devil octopus, slurping it down in one mighty gulp.

I grimaced. Okay, so maybe he had been tasting Hades.”
― Jovee Winters, The Sea Queen

“There were some days when being a grown-up sucked. Today was one of them.”
― Jovee Winters, The Sea Queen

“Unfurling herself like a large polar cat, she stood twice as tall as me. Her coat was a magnificent mother of pearl, while her tail gleamed turquoise with threads of gold bisecting each scale. Her teeth were large, capable of tearing a man in half, and her eyes glowed a deep bloody red. She was fury and wonder, and I adored her.”
― Jovee Winters, The Sea Queen

“She is lovely. She is lethal.”
― Jovee Winters, The Sea Queen

“This was a wonderful idea to have the party here, my love."

I beamed proudly. "I know. But you want to know what the very best idea is that I've ever had?"

Turning in my seat, I looked at him head on. Even after all this time, my heart still skipped a beat when he was near.

Grabbing my hands, he placed a tender kiss on each palm. "And what's that?"

"The day I decided to make you my sex slave."

He laughed...”
― Jovee Winters, The Sea Queen

“It'd been a month since I'd seen or held Thalassa last. I'd hoped in vain that she would come to me at some point. Every night I visited the Lethe, speaking my truth to it. Imagining that somehow she was listening, that she heard me.”
― Jovee Winters, The Sea Queen

“You fascinate me, Thalassa."

I sucked in a breath. I hadn't been called by that name in ages, since before the dawn of man. It was my true birth name.

Swallowing hard, for once I had no words to say, and I watched hungrily as he turned and stole from my room.

I wanted to chase after him. Wanted to call him back and demand he tell me why he'd said that name. But goddesses did not beg.”
― Jovee Winters, The Sea Queen

“Hades was the keeper of the dead. Be you a mortal, to touch him would mean to seal your doom. To taste of his flesh would feel like bathing in the pits of Tartarus for an eternity.

But for me...ye gods.”
― Jovee Winters, The Sea Queen

“Many a man had lost his heart to the Sea. He'd not be the first. But the Sea had never lost her heart to any man.”
― Jovee Winters, The Sea Queen

“He could breathe. Sort of.

I hadn't given him the kiss of life yet, but it was kind of fun to have him completely at my mercy and clinging to my body like a man drowning.”
― Jovee Winters, The Sea Queen

“Calypso, Goddess of the Sea. your request has been granted. You shall keep Hades within your Kingdom for the nest fortnight. He cannot be allowed into the Above for any reason while we follow the evidentiary trail toward the true culprit. Should he escape, he will be lashed a thousand times by Athena's whip, chained to a rock, and have his eyes picked on by vultures for the next thousand years."

"Oh, is that all?" Hades growled.

My lips twitched. He was funny.”
― Jovee Winters, The Sea Queen

“Hades was also vile, loathsome, and fiercely dangerous.

My heart sped.”
― Jovee Winters, The Sea Queen

“Whew," Dite lifted her hand off me and shook her fingers. "You're positively brimming with raw lust. So you want to have Count Dracula's babies, do you?"

"Count Dracula? No, I do not know of whom you speak. Nor do I wish more children. I have plenty. I just want to screw Hades' liver out.”
― Jovee Winters, The Sea Queen

“When she falls, she falls hard, and her love, while exceedingly rare, is a gift to be handled with the greatest reverence. She is a treasure worth savoring. Treat her well, and there is nothing that should be impossible to you.”
― Jovee Winters, The Sea Queen