Silence Quotes

“Whore!" screeched a voice. "Faithless woman! How dare you take this man into your bed while we suffer. The man who killed your own brothers. Neither of you deserve to live!”
― Demelza Carlton, Silence: Little Mermaid Retold

“Erik’s hand stroked her leg, trailing his fingers higher until he reached the junction of her thighs. Margareta gasped as his fingers slid inside, stroking her even more intimately than before. "I love you," he whispered, tightening his grip around her with one arm as her knees weakened from the caresses from his other hand.”
― Demelza Carlton, Silence: Little Mermaid Retold

“For a wave might break against a rock, but no man could master the ocean.”
― Demelza Carlton, Silence: Little Mermaid Retold

“Not a word or a laugh or a single sound would pass her lips for more than six years, when fate intervened. For a siren whose voice is never heard is hardly a siren at all. Maybe enough to make a man wonder whether she might make a suitable wife.”
― Demelza Carlton, Silence: Little Mermaid Retold

“He stretched out on the pallet and stared at the wooden ceiling, wishing he wasn't the one who would have to tell his parents that their favourite son was dead.”
― Demelza Carlton, Silence: Little Mermaid Retold

“She rose, straightened her salt-dampened gown, and marched up to her father's house. Pausing only to ask a maid to have some water sent up to her chamber so that she might wash, Margareta headed for her father's chamber, where she was certain he would be at this time of the morning.”
― Demelza Carlton, Silence: Little Mermaid Retold