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

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

Music, it seemed, could appear in many voices, and had all 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