Lies We Sing to the Sea Quotes

“We are more than our actions,” said Leto. “We are the way we love others, and the way they love us back.”
― Sarah Underwood, Lies We Sing to the Sea

“Caged birds, she supposed, learned to recognize the sound of each other’s songs.”
― Sarah Underwood, Lies We Sing to the Sea

“Gods feed on the terror of mortals,” said Melantho. “Where there is no fear, there are no prayers.”
― Sarah Underwood, Lies We Sing to the Sea

“She blinked at him. Why did she care? How could she not care? His sister was dead, his sister was dead because of her. Belatedly, she remembered her guise—the servant from Athens, the stranger. “I—I suppose because it isn’t fair.” Mathias’s smile was wry. “What in life is?” “That doesn’t mean unfairness should be tolerated. That it should be expected. We should not—we should not be playthings for the gods.”
― Sarah Underwood, Lies We Sing to the Sea

“No, you couldn’t,” said Melantho. “You cannot save someone who does not want to be saved.”
― Sarah Underwood, Lies We Sing to the Sea

“We are more than our actions,” said Leto. “We are the way we love others and the way they love us back.” And the way that others will ruin themselves in our absence, the way that no one else will ever be good enough for life to be worth living.”
― Sarah Underwood, Lies We Sing to the Sea

“others do, that the Fates decide the circumstances of our lives, of our deaths. My life is not a strand of yarn for Lachesis to measure, for Atropos to cut.”
― Sarah Underwood, Lies We Sing to the Sea