“I brought you here to tell you this: sometimes what we are searching for does not exist. We may sacrifice for it, even bleed for it, but it was never meant to be ours.” WantWisdomSacrificeUnrequited LoveSelf Sacrifice Book:Drown Source: Drown
“Thus the little mermaid learned her world’s greatest paradox: that their currency was beauty, and their coin was body parts.” BeautyVanityParadoxShallownessBeauty Standards Book:Drown Source: Drown
“The woman looked at her heart in all of its fragments. Its voice was clear and true as it reminded her of the injustices done to it. Nothing so forlorn and broken could lie to her — could it? However, the woman was not a rational woman, and did not heed the beings’ warning. “Strip my humanity away, that I may never again walk in the race of men,” was her one wish.” LoveFairy TaleIrrationalHeart BreakMermaidRetellingThe Little Mermaid Book:Drown Source: Drown