The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea Quotes

“Stories are both an escape from the truths of the world and the only way to see them clearly.”
― Axie Oh, The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea

“Nothing extraordinary is ever done out of reason or logic, but because it’s the only way for your soul to breathe.”
― Axie Oh, The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea

“Sometimes you don't find family in your own blood, but elsewhere.”
― Axie Oh, The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea

“I was angry at the fate I'd been given. Because I realised that in order for you to have what you want, I'd have to lose the only thing I've ever wanted.”
― Axie Oh, The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea

“That there is no place you can go so far away from forgiveness. Not from someone who loves you.”
― Axie Oh, The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea

“Sometimes, only through a story can a truth be heard.”
― Axie Oh, The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea

“I don't think love can be bought or earned or even prayed for. It must be freely given.”
― Axie Oh, The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea

“That's just like a human to think the world revolves around you, to think the rivers are for you, the sky, the sea is for you. You are just one of many parts of the world, and in my opinion, the one that blights them all.”
― Axie Oh, The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea

“Not all storytellers are grandmothers, but all grandmothers are storytellers.”
― Axie Oh, The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea

“We will always love you, because you are ours. You are our sea, and our storms and our sunlight breaking out over a new day. You are our hope. We've been waiting for you for such a long time. Come back to us. Please come back.”
― Axie Oh, The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea

“Do you know how much I love you?"
"Even I don't know. My love for you is endless. Deep and endless, like the sea.”
― Axie Oh, The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea

“Don't chase fate, Mina. Let fate chase you."
" love can't be bought or earned or even prayed for. It must be freely given.”
― Axie Oh, The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea

“Something crafted with so much love could never sink”
― Axie Oh, The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea

“Wait for me," he says, "where the land meets the sea.”
― Axie Oh, The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea

“And never was it for anyone's sake but my own. I couldn't endure in a world where I did nothing, where I let those I love suffer and be hurt. If I had stayed home, if I had never run after Joon, if I had never jumped into the sea, there would have been such a hole in my heart- the emptiness of having done nothing at all.”
― Axie Oh, The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea

“I apologize for many things, but mostly I apologize for making the weight you carry a little heavier.”
― Axie Oh, The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea

“But strange, Mina, why do I feel like this? I don’t need a Red String or Fate to tell me that if you should die, so will I.”
― Axie Oh, The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea

“Your story has been told over and over again, by everyone but you, I might have jumped into the sea to save Joon, but it was your hesitation that gave me the courage. With everyone and everything pushing you toward the Sea God and a fate not of your choosing, you looked back to what you wanted. And because of that, to me, you are the Sea God's bride. The girl who, by saving herself, saves the world.”
― Axie Oh, The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea

“Look Shin, I found your soul." I lift my palm. At the center sits the pebble with the carving of the lotus flower... "It might not be as large as a mountain or as bright as the moon, but it's your soul. It's strong, resilient, and steadfast. And stubborn. And worthy, just as you are.”
― Axie Oh, The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea

“Humans tell myths to explain what they cannot understand.”
― Axie Oh, The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea

“Nothing extraordinary is ever done out of reason or logic, but because it's the only way for your soul to breathe.”
― Axie Oh, The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea

“Your people suffer not because of any great will of the gods, but because of their own violent acts. They wage the wars that burn the forests and fields. They spill the blood that pollutes the rivers and streams. To blame the gods is to blame the land itself. Look upon your reflection to find your enemy.”
― Axie Oh, The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea

“There are many pathways destiny can take.”
― Axie Oh, The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea

“My grandfather understood the comfort there is in shared silence.”
― Axie Oh, The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea

“In order to remain a human you'd have to tie your life to an immortal. I may not be the god of a river, a mountain, or a lake but I am a god, and I would tie my life to yours, if you'll have me”
― Axie Oh, The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea

“I am like the other brides. I know what it is to love someone you would do anything to protect. Who are you to say what my fate is- if I am to fail, or if I am to succeed? My fate is not yours to decide, my fate belongs to me.”
― Axie Oh, The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea

“I love them." It sounds like a confession, and I realize- haltingly- that it is. Whenever I ran through the rice fields, the long-necked cranes billowing their great wings as if in greeting; whenever I climbed the cliffs, the breeze urging me onward; whenever I looked out to the sea, the sunlight on the water like laughter, I felt love. I felt loved. How could the gods abandon those who love them?”
― Axie Oh, The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea

“My grandmother often said that the most dangerous of gods are the ones who are forgotten.”
― Axie Oh, The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea

“Shim Cheong might be the most beautiful girl in the village but her face is a curse.”
― Axie Oh, The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea

“Don't chase fate, Mina. Let fate chase you.”
― Axie Oh, The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea