The Sea Witch Quotes

“I love him because I can’t help it. Because in the Sea Witch, I hear the deepest echo of my own soul.”
― Rebecca F. Kenney, The Sea Witch: A Little Mermaid Retelling

“Yes, I love him. More fervently than I thought possible. Not because I have a false view of him—I see everything that he is, good and bad. And he’s mine.”
― Rebecca F. Kenney, The Sea Witch: A Little Mermaid Retelling

“Wisdom and knowledge are not the same.”
― Rebecca F. Kenney, The Sea Witch: A Little Mermaid Retelling

“Why do you love me? I’m a wicked wretch, and you know it.” Words swirl through my head—so many reasons, piling one atop another. But I give him just one, for now. “You listened, even when I couldn’t speak,” I whisper.”
― Rebecca F. Kenney, The Sea Witch: A Little Mermaid Retelling

“You don’t teach someone by handing them success. They have to earn it. They have to work hard and lose and lose until they gain it.”
― Rebecca F. Kenney, The Sea Witch: A Little Mermaid Retelling

“Nothing can quell the ocean’s fury, or steal her prey.”
― Rebecca F. Kenney, The Sea Witch: A Little Mermaid Retelling

“I’m not afraid of things that are different, or unknown. I want them, I welcome them.”
― Rebecca F. Kenney, The Sea Witch: A Little Mermaid Retelling

“See, Beautiful, you were going to be my queen, and Cassilenne was to be my mistress—our mistress. I planned to have you framed for the king’s murder much later than this, after Cass and I had a chance to enjoy you awhile. After a suitable number of months I would have disposed of my father and blamed you for it—you, the mute spy, sent by enemies to destabilize our kingdom. But then you had to go and get yourself roughed up and robbed. I can’t have a wife who might be carrying some thieving wretch’s spawn in her womb. It’s a pity, really. I wanted you quiet and clean and perfect and mine.”
― Rebecca F. Kenney, The Sea Witch: A Little Mermaid Retelling

“Can’t you get away any sooner?” So eager to conclude our business and be rid of me? There’s a sting in her voice, and a corresponding twinge of pain through my heart. “Yes,” I reply. Because there is nothing else to be done. No sense dragging out the inevitable. No use pretending that the tug I feel when I’m with her is anything but a foolish lust for what’s forbidden to me. Never mind the strange way my soul longs to nestle against hers—never mind that I want to slaughter any man who might touch her or crave her—nothing can come of it.”
― Rebecca F. Kenney, The Sea Witch: A Little Mermaid Retelling

“It felt good, but it wasn’t true relief. I suspect I won’t feel truly, blissfully satisfied unless I get to bury myself in the luscious body I made for the princess. Unless I get to hear her moan and mew and plead, and call my name while she begs me to make her come. Once won’t be enough. I’ll make her scream again and again, until she’s limp and boneless.”
― Rebecca F. Kenney, The Sea Witch: A Little Mermaid Retelling

“If I have to sit behind you on the horse, I might fall asleep and topple off,” I say ruefully. “Can’t I ride in front?” Another choked laugh from him, and he blurts out, as if he can’t hold the words in, “If we do that, I’m going to come in my pants against your pretty ass. Is that what you want?”
― Rebecca F. Kenney, The Sea Witch: A Little Mermaid Retelling

“Happiness?” Liris looks back at me sharply. “Is that what you seek? I thought you wanted revenge.” “They’re the same thing.” “No,” he says gently. “Ah, no, they are not.”
― Rebecca F. Kenney, The Sea Witch: A Little Mermaid Retelling

“She is infuriating yet intoxicating, naïve yet sensual. Of course the puny prince will want her. How could he not?”
― Rebecca F. Kenney, The Sea Witch: A Little Mermaid Retelling

“The sea flows through both of us, fills us, slips in and out of throats and gills, whispers in our ears. We are one with it, but it does not define us, because we are more than the sea, more than the air. He and I—we are something altogether beyond.”
― Rebecca F. Kenney, The Sea Witch: A Little Mermaid Retelling

“If you keep calling me shrimp I’m going to call you ‘octopus,”
― Rebecca F. Kenney, The Sea Witch: A Little Mermaid Retelling

“My life was a shadowed chamber, and when Averil came she swept back the curtains. My existence was murky, poisoned water, and her presence cleared away the filth until the waves sparkled clear again.”
― Rebecca F. Kenney, The Sea Witch: A Little Mermaid Retelling

“I want her to be mine, and I want to be hers—not for some indeterminate span of years, but forever.”
― Rebecca F. Kenney, The Sea Witch: A Little Mermaid Retelling

“A woman may forgive, but she remembers.”
― Rebecca F. Kenney, The Sea Witch: A Little Mermaid Retelling

“Good girl. That’s my little sinner.”
― Rebecca F. Kenney, The Sea Witch: A Little Mermaid Retelling

“The emotion I feel for the Sea Witch surges up, wave upon wave, until it’s a tsunami crashing through my heart, filling the trenches carved by his betrayal.”
― Rebecca F. Kenney, The Sea Witch: A Little Mermaid Retelling

“Each thought she pressed into my brain is like a taut thread, winding around my heart, tightening until my entire body twitches with pain.”
― Rebecca F. Kenney, The Sea Witch: A Little Mermaid Retelling

“So it is, and so shall it be.”
― Rebecca F. Kenney, The Sea Witch: A Little Mermaid Retelling

“She wants to know it all, everything, immediately. I used to feel that way about magic. About the sea. About the world.”
― Rebecca F. Kenney, The Sea Witch: A Little Mermaid Retelling

“She has a spirit far bigger than her body, that’s for certain.”
― Rebecca F. Kenney, The Sea Witch: A Little Mermaid Retelling

“I’ve never shied away from a challenge before. I can conquer this one.”
― Rebecca F. Kenney, The Sea Witch: A Little Mermaid Retelling

“I want to know more about him. I want to step into his world.”
― Rebecca F. Kenney, The Sea Witch: A Little Mermaid Retelling

“She can’t say no to this offer. I’ve got her now. She’s mine.”
― Rebecca F. Kenney, The Sea Witch: A Little Mermaid Retelling

“A child does not owe a parent the gift of peace after years of lies and pain.”
― Rebecca F. Kenney, The Sea Witch: A Little Mermaid Retelling