Nadia Scrieva > Quotes

“Each meeting occurs at the precise moment for which it was meant. Usually, when it will have the greatest impact on our lives.”
― Nadia Scrieva, Fathoms of Forgiveness

“It is rooted deep in your bones; the water calls out to you until it causes you physical pain unless you come to it.”
― Nadia Scrieva, Drowning Mermaids

“Don’t you dare come into my world and tell me what color the ocean is! It’s black. Black as midnight. Black and awful!”
― Nadia Scrieva

“The heart knows the immensity it wants to achieve, but it is limited.”
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“He sells his loyalties to the highest bidder. Shouldn’t even a mercenary have morals? That’s the textbook definition of a whore!”
― Nadia Scrieva

“Victory is always bittersweet.”
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“You do not require a license to love someone; you don’t need to pass any complicated tests. Love does not have age limitations, rules, or restrictions. Love is our birthright—it is the one thing that all humans know how to do, the one thing we all deserve. You can’t force it or fake it. You can know someone for an entire lifetime, and not feel a drop of love for them. And you can know someone for a single day, and give your heart to them completely.”
― Nadia Scrieva, Tides of Tranquility

“I can never gain something without losing everything I had before.”
― Nadia Scrieva, Fathoms of Forgiveness

“It is very easy to be a military strategist, a mercenary, or a king, but much harder to be a father.”
― Nadia Scrieva, Tides of Tranquility

“How could he possibly bow deeply enough to honor a thousand-year-old samurai queen?”
― Nadia Scrieva, Fathoms of Forgiveness

“Diplomacy never works.”
― Nadia Scrieva

“As you can see, I’ve got legs. I can also assure you that I know how to use them. Any questions?”
― Nadia Scrieva, Boundless Sea

“Love does not have gender. Love is not exclusive! Our hearts have the capacity to love so many people. The only tragedy is when fear, cultural barriers, ridiculous misunderstandings, or arbitrary numbers prevent us from experiencing the joy we could have.”
― Nadia Scrieva, Tides of Tranquility

“There is magic in all life.”
― Nadia Scrieva, Drowning Mermaids

“He remembered the gracefulness with which she moved in battle—like liquid flesh. There was no one quite like his wife, and he never felt more triumphant and free than when he was in her company.”
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“Every single day is an opportunity to do something great, and redefine our destiny.”
― Nadia Scrieva, Maelstrom

“I’ve always warned you to be careful of men. This is the way they work. They get into your heart—they say or do anything to make you fall in love with them, and then once they’re confident that they have you, they start to treat you like shit.”
― Nadia Scrieva, Drowning Mermaids

“Every decision you make cannot be the right one, but as long as the positive repercussions balance with or outnumber the negative ones, you are making progress. Progress is all we can hope for, and it is what you are best at achieving.”
― Nadia Scrieva, Sacred Breath Series

“Harder than any pottery or steel was a person’s manner of thinking; if a person chose to be firmly set in his ways he was forever immobile. On the other hand, if that same person decided to seek another way, or several other ways, there was no substance on earth that could stop such ambition.”
― Nadia Scrieva, Drowning Mermaids

“I didn’t think he was in danger of drowning while urinating! Toilet monsters that grab you by the wang and pull you down to a horrifying death-by-piss haven’t exactly been my major concern since preschool.”
― Nadia Scrieva, Drowning Mermaids

“Remember—when bad things happen to us, it all happens for a reason. Fate would never give us more than we can handle. Fate knows us better than we know ourselves; we only know what we are and what we have been, but fate knows what we are capable of being.”
― Nadia Scrieva, Tides of Tranquility

“Those dark marks on your soul? Let the sunrise erase them. If you go to bed broken in the nighttime, you can still wake up whole in the morning.”
― Nadia Scrieva, Maelstrom

“I am just not convinced that living longer and being safe from the elements is worth the sacrifice of becoming what one is supposed to become. It’s just… horrifying.”
― Nadia Scrieva, Drowning Mermaids

“We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch— we are going back from whence we came. -John F. Kennedy”
― Nadia Scrieva, Drowning Mermaids

“Men and women of this particular period are so used to constantly lying to each other that they are culturally trained not to take the other seriously. It’s a mental adaptation everyone seems to have. Ubiquitous distrust.”
― Nadia Scrieva, Drowning Mermaids

“We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch— we are going back from whence we came. John F. Kennedy”
― Nadia Scrieva, Princess of Ice

“It’s human nature for us to love each other. However, a man can love you and still treat you like dirt. The way my father loves his daughters. Choose a man who respects you. Respect is far more essential and precious than love.”
― Nadia Scrieva, Maelstrom

“Do not blame yourself. The sea takes lives callously.”
― Nadia Scrieva, Drowning Mermaids