“Thus the little mermaid learned her world’s greatest paradox: that their currency was beauty, and their coin was body parts.”

“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.”

“Music, it seemed, could appear in many voices, and had all of the emotions and array of vocabulary as a human..”

“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.”

“Thus the little mermaid learned her world’s greatest paradox: that their currency was beauty, and their coin was body parts.”