Crown of Coral and Pearl
Mara Rutherford
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Those who have never known pain or adversity are as shallow as the waves lapping on the shore." "And what is wrong with being shallow?" I'd asked him. "What lies beneath the surface of shallow waters? Nothing. It's only when you go deeper that the ocean comes alive. The deeper you go, the more mysteries and surprises await.”
“Hiding our scars doesn't mean they're not really there. Just as beauty cannot disguise who we really are beneath the surface.”
“There was an old legend that said pearls were the tears of the gods, but we mortals wept only saltwater, and we had more than enough of that around here.”
“My people had a saying about home, as they did about so many of the important things in life: a Varenian can never be lost at sea, because he calls the entire ocean home.”
“I would never be that good, that pure of heart. And that was a harder sort of pain to bear.”
“I will see you again, in this life or another. Now go, meet your destiny.”
“I'd never seen shallow waters, but I did know one thing about them: you could walk through them to the shore. and there could be no greater mystery or surprise than land. At least not to me.”
“I turned the button over in my hand. it was engraved with a small, many-petaled flower. I'd heard of roses, though I'd never seen one before. I tried to imagine a world in which something as small as a button was deemed worthy of this level of craftsmanship.”
“Home was not a house, or a village, or a sea. It was family, and love, and the space where your soul could roost, like a seabird safe from a storm.”
“But I was coming to realize that beauty—at least as defined by my people—was more of a burden than a gift.”
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