Ingo Quotes
"People do cruel things sometimes, when they’re angry."
"The Zennor mermaid fell in love with a human."
"Mer people can’t live away from the water."
"I thought it was mermaids that sang, Dad."
"I couldn’t live without them, I knew I couldn’t."
"Look out, Sapphy, I’m coming to get you!"
"The story lodged deep inside my mind like an underwater rock that can tear a ship open in bad weather."
"Midsummer Night is so short that dawn arrives before the party’s over."
"My dad is strong. He takes his boat out in most weathers, and he can swim more than three miles."
"Magic’s wild. You can’t put a harness on it or make it do what you want. Even the best magic can be dangerous."
"The thought of Dad is always in my mind somewhere, like a bruise."
"You know how the sea grinds down stones into sand, over years and years and years?"
"We are like stones, being changed into something completely different."
"If you love someone so much, how can he not hear you when you call to him?"
"It’s a wonderful night, the longest day and the shortest night."
"Your dad has gone, your dad has gone, your dad has gone."
"The coast guard searches up and down the coast, but they find nothing."
"We’re going to find Dad, Saph. However long it takes."
"The sea knows how to break up any ship."
"I tried to imagine what it would be like never to see Dad again, or Mum."
"How has it come in so quickly?" I repeat aloud.
It’s only the tide," says Faro easily. "It always comes in like this.
"I’ll have to swim back to the rocks. I’ve got to go back now, before it gets too deep."
"Without Conor?" asks Faro critically. "If I knew that my sister was in the Air, I would never leave her. I would never go home without her."
"It must be strange to be divided, the way you are," he says with a tinge of pity in his voice.
"I am not half of anything. I am wholly Mer," He says it proudly.
"Hold my wrist, just here. Clasp your fingers around me. Tighter than that. When I dive, you dive."
"Let go, or you’ll drown," says Faro imperatively.
I’m breathing!" I say in wonder. "I can do it, Faro!
"I thought you knew so much. Ingo is where we are. Ingo is everything that doesn’t belong to the Air."
"You don’t know who might be listening," he whispers.
"I can’t breathe. The water won’t let me breathe. It’s choking me."
"I won’t ever stay away that long. I’ll come back when I want to."
"It’s dangerous to think of Air when you’re here," says Faro.
"Don’t try to hold your breath. Don’t even think about breathing."
"It’s like being wiped out by a wave when you’re surfing, but this time there’s no way up into the air."
"It’s dangerous. You know it is," says Conor.
"I wish I was away in Ingo...far across the briny sea."
"So let me know when I start to grow a tail."
"Our cottage isn’t a home at all. It’s a prison."
"Conor, listen. What else did Elvira say to you?"
"It was better-looking when it was running around, in my opinion," I answer.
"You think you haven’t done anything to us," says Faro, more quietly.
"But how can you discover anything if you don’t take risks?" I ask.
"I’d like to learn to dive," he says, looking directly at Roger.
"You’re feeling better, aren’t you, Sapphy?"
"The tide’s on the turn," I say before I know I’m going to say it.
"I can’t seem to see the word ‘Atlantic’ here anywhere," he murmurs.
"Don’t be dumb, Faro. Things like sea and sky don’t have words printed right through them."
"If something is worth keeping, you can keep it in your mind."
"What’s so respectful about forcing your way in where you’re not wanted?"
"Maybe they’re right and you’re wrong. Maybe he’s never coming back."
"Why was I so stupid? Why ever did I say that Conor didn’t care about Dad?"
"Dad’s not here, but we’re still eating roast chicken."
"Why don’t you eat your broccoli, Sapphire," says Mum automatically.
"Don’t worry about me, Jennie. I’m fine."
"If you crave for something, you want it so much you’ll stop at nothing to get it."
"The things that people say here are between them and these walls."
"You won’t help him that way. We have to go gentle."
"You always have to tell the bees. If there’s a birth or a death, you tell them before you give the news to anyone else, and then they’re satisfied."
"Anything you want will happen if you work on it."
"I’ve asked you a dozen times to clean it, Sapphire."
"You work on that then. Anything you want will happen if you work on it."
"But he’s got to be warned, so he doesn’t come here."
"You must try to move on, Saph. You’ve got your life to live."
"We won’t be diving around the Bawns again. There’s nothing there."
"You’ve got Mer blood in you, Sapphire. It’s come down to you from your ancestors. You can do it."
"I can try to help Roger or not. The choice is mine."
"It’s okay, Jennie. Put it out of your mind. We won’t be diving around the Bawns again."
"My God, you guys must be pretty strong."