Tiara

“Everybody made faces around here. Human beings, she discovered, could not maintain the stony, frozen expressions of the merfolk, not for an instant. There was not a moment where their faces remained blank. There was always a light in their eye, and the light, like red wind, would flare into a raging fire without notice.”
― Esther Dalseno, Drown

“It seemed only right that beauty was the key to the industry, and the sacrificing of beauty to buy possessions seemed only fair to her evolving mind.”
― Esther Dalseno, Drown

“Music, it seemed, could appear in many voices, and had all of the emotions and array of vocabulary as a human..”
― Esther Dalseno, Drown

“However, she was not a rational woman, and she did not reconsider.”
― Esther Dalseno, Drown: A Twisted Take on the Classic Fairy Tale