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Into the Drowning Deep (Rolling in the Deep, #1) QUOTES

Into the Drowning Deep (Rolling in the Deep, #1) QUOTES

1 " No, it's the best time for jokes,' said Olivia. She forced a weak smile. 'Jokes remind us that we're alive. And that your sense of humor is terrible. "

― Mira Grant , Into the Drowning Deep (Rolling in the Deep, #1)

2 " Heather was still a dreamer. She'd known she could never be an astronaut since she was a child, that no one would put a deaf girl into a rocket and tell her to reach for the stars, so she'd looked around until she'd found the next best thing, and then she'd done whatever she had to do to make it her own. She was one of the best in her field, and a lot of that was because after giving up on one dream, she 'd be damned before she gave up on another. "

― Mira Grant , Into the Drowning Deep (Rolling in the Deep, #1)

3 " Too many places didn't want to hire her, claiming her lack of hearing was a liability that would put an unfair burden on their insurance. Never mind that she traveled with a submersible designed to her parameters, signaling all alarms and issues with flashing lights and pressure changes in the fabric of her seat; they were uncomfortable about the idea of working with a deaf woman, and while the Americans with Disabilities Act made it harder for them to refuse her employment, it didn't make it impossible. There would always be lawyers who specialize in keeping the disabled out of the workforce, especially when the jobs they wanted to do - the jobs they were trained to do - were difficult or dangerous or otherwise complex. "

― Mira Grant , Into the Drowning Deep (Rolling in the Deep, #1)

4 " Mermaids weren't mammalian. They couldn't be. Too many sightings focused on their 'slender backs' and 'narrow waists'--features that seemed reasonable to modern readers with modern beauty standards, but which made no sense for an Italian fisherman during the plague years, or a Puerto Rican swimmer in the 1920s. If the mermaid had been an idealized projection of a human woman onto a marine mammal, she would have looked different every time, fat during some eras, thin during others, not consistently slim to the point of freezing in oceanic waters. The people who described mermaids were describing a real creature, something that wasn't mammalian, but looked mammalian enough to make a tempting lure. And why would anything lure sailors, if not as a form of sustenance? "

― Mira Grant , Into the Drowning Deep (Rolling in the Deep, #1)

5 " Of course she died There's no other way she could have died. If she'd been dying for something, the world would have realized it was a stupid thing, and given her back. "

― Mira Grant , Into the Drowning Deep (Rolling in the Deep, #1)

6 " The first active shutter drill began at midnight.

It ended two minutes later, in failure.

The Melusine sailed on. "

― Mira Grant , Into the Drowning Deep (Rolling in the Deep, #1)

7 " They were good people. Not dolphin-good, but human-good, which was almost good enough. They couldn’t fulfill the instinctive needs she had burning in her brain, the ones that told her to find a mate who wasn’t her brother or her uncle, to swim, to leap, to know. So she was here, with the deep black sea between her and her freedom. "

― Mira Grant , Into the Drowning Deep (Rolling in the Deep, #1)

8 " The seas did not forgive, and they did not welcome their wayward children home. "

― Mira Grant , Into the Drowning Deep (Rolling in the Deep, #1)

9 " Humanity was cruel, and if you were prepared to try to find a bottom to that cruelty, you had best be prepared for a long, long fall. "

― Mira Grant , Into the Drowning Deep (Rolling in the Deep, #1)

10 " Science is not a matter of belief. Science does not care whether you believe in it or not. Science will continue to do what science will do, free from morality, free from ethical concerns, and most of all, free from the petty worry that it will not be believed. Belief has shaped the history of human accomplishment—we believe we can, and so we do—but belief has never changed the natural world. The mountain does not vanish because we believe it should. The unicorn does not appear because we believe it will. "

― Mira Grant , Into the Drowning Deep (Rolling in the Deep, #1)

11 " It was beautiful, in its own terrible way.
So many monsters are. "

― Mira Grant , Into the Drowning Deep (Rolling in the Deep, #1)

12 " Do I think they found mermaids? Yes. Of course I do. And I think the mermaids ate them all. "

― Mira Grant , Into the Drowning Deep (Rolling in the Deep, #1)

13 " What you have to understand about the mermaid legend is that it's universal. No matter where you go, the mermaids got there first. Even inland, if there's a big enough lake, I guarantee you there's a local community with a story about women in the water with beautiful voices who lure men to their deaths.

Where there's water, we find mermaids. Maybe it's time we started asking ourselves exactly why that is. "

― Mira Grant , Into the Drowning Deep (Rolling in the Deep, #1)

14 " The Atargatis hadn’t found the mermaids through a free and open exchange of ideas. The Atargatis had found the mermaids because the people on the ship were made of meat, and the mermaids had empty stomachs that they wanted to fill. That was how you found things, in the sea. Be delicious. That was all you ever had to do. "

― Mira Grant , Into the Drowning Deep (Rolling in the Deep, #1)

15 " This was where darkness went to live forever, growing deeper and more powerful as the eons passed it by. "

― Mira Grant , Into the Drowning Deep (Rolling in the Deep, #1)

16 " As long as there was life in the sea, there would be teeth. "

― Mira Grant , Into the Drowning Deep (Rolling in the Deep, #1)

17 " Whistling past the graveyard is a time-honored tradition. Keeps us from screaming. "

― Mira Grant , Into the Drowning Deep (Rolling in the Deep, #1)

18 " Humanity has feared the dark since time immemorial, and yet humanity has never experienced the dark, because it wasn't until recently - the age of cunning hands and clever machines - that the dark had been anything more than a whispering legend, a rumor of a nightmare. "

― Mira Grant , Into the Drowning Deep (Rolling in the Deep, #1)

19 " Humanity had chosen the land over the sea millennia ago, and sometimes - when she let her mind wander, when she was romanticizing what she did and how she did it - she thought the sea still held a grudge. Breakups were never easy, and while humanity was hot and fast and had had plenty of time to get over it, the oceans were deep and slow, and for them all change had happened only yesterday. The seas did not forgive, and they did not welcome their wayward children home. "

― Mira Grant , Into the Drowning Deep (Rolling in the Deep, #1)

20 " Each new wave of humanity found itself crashing onto a beach that was a little more cluttered from what had come before, a little more damaged from the carelessness of others. "

― Mira Grant , Into the Drowning Deep (Rolling in the Deep, #1)