Book: Destroy the kingdom. Page 1

- Accept already that everything I said is an insult.

In order to survive, one cannot bend under the world - one must bend the world under oneself.

I'm sure that even without my strength, it's still dangerous. Maybe I don't have fins or even a voice right now, but I'm my mother's daughter. I am the deadliest creature in a hundred kingdoms.

The worst of the worst are always the best.

I am not supposed to have emotions, I must inspire terror, not experience it.

Killing a siren is not the same as killing a mermaid. Their rotting corpses are full of the seabed, and the skeletons are overgrown with corals, while we turn into what gave birth to us. Into the ocean, foam and salt in our veins. We leave without leaving memories.

- I have never been accused of kindness.

Life in the ocean taught me to see what others do not see, and wait for what they do not want to think about.

Her fragility seems threatening, as if every corner of her thin body is a weapon.

Human pettiness knows no bounds.

Pirates are liars by vocation, and royal offspring are by blood.

If I need anything, it's definitely not salvation. I risked my life so often that I became sure of my own invulnerability.

- Sorry, I didn’t know you have them.

It is impossible to assess whether a case is worth the risk until it is too late.