Esther Dalseno Quotes & Sayings

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

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. — Esther Dalseno

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

Thus the little mermaid learned her world's greatest paradox: that their currency was beauty, and their coin was body parts. — Esther Dalseno

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

However, she was not a rational woman, and she did not reconsider. — Esther Dalseno

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. — Esther Dalseno