Julia Ember > Quotes

“What we had might not be forever, but it was now, and it was everything I needed.”
― Julia Ember, The Seafarer's Kiss

“But that was before I’d met a human: before I’d seen the depth, intelligence, even empathy, in Ragna’s eyes; before I knew that humans spoke
the godstongue and smiled like starfish.”
― Julia Ember, The Seafarer's Kiss

“A single twist of white-blonde hair blew across her face and stuck to her half-frozen lips. When she noticed me, the edges of her eyes crinkled as though she were smiling, as if she had been waiting.”
― Julia Ember, The Seafarer's Kiss

“One of the advisors whispered into the king's ear, and the monarch shook his head in disgust. "Did you really do all this for a human?"

....

Still, I had to clear my throat three times before I forced the words through chattering teeth. "No, my Majesty. I did it for myself.”
― Julia Ember, The Seafarer's Kiss

“There's something a little monstrous in both of us. And maybe it has to be that way for us to survive.”
― Julia Ember, The Seafarer's Kiss

“I swallowed a morsel of bitterness. It annoyed me that Havamal had grown up to be so good-looking… so irksomely muscular and well-proportioned. The other mermaids fawned over him and hung on his every word.

If there was any justice under the sea, he would have remained gap-toothed and gangly for the rest of his life.”
― Julia Ember, The Seafarer's Kiss

“Don't ask questions if you won't like the answers."

"How do I know I won't like the answers until I ask the questions?”
― Julia Ember, The Seafarer's Kiss

“Please," she insisted, touching me of her own accord. "You came back. You were curious enough to come back, so you must care at least a little. I don't want to die here."

I knew what it was like to be trapped, to feel stranded and alone.

I close my fingers around the metal chain, hiding it in my palm. "I'll see what I can do.”
― Julia Ember, The Seafarer's Kiss