Ava Reid

- It's not about cruelty. It's about power. Without power, all you have is anger and spite. Cruelty comes when you have the strength to turn your anger on someone else.

When men fell into the sea, they drown. When women meet the water, their transform. It becomes vital to ask: is this a metamorphosis, or a homecoming?

You’re not just one thing. Survival is something you do, not something you are. You’re brave and brilliant. You’re the most real, full person I’ve ever met.

Love is a fire that cannot burn alone.

I will love you to ruination, the Fairy King said, brushing a strand of golden hair from my cheek.
Yours or mine? I asked.
The Fairy King did not answer.

The only enemy is the sea.