Marcella Di Pasquale: Valerie

Quotes 

• [first lines] 

  [Madison and Valerie are in a sea cave, tied back-to-back, and menaced by a shark-headed sea monster] 

  Valerie : [whispering]  I'm gonna say something.

  Madison : [whispering]  No, don't... .

  Valerie : Hey! Hey, weirdo!

  Madison : Valerie, don't...

  Valerie : Is anything going to happen, or are we just going to sit here and get old?

  Madison : He's not going to answer you.

  Valerie : You know what? I am sick of this. I've been through a lot of kidnappings and this has got to be the most boring kidnapping situation I've ever been through and I've been through a lot of kidnapping situations.

  Madison : They're just trying to scare us.

  Valerie : I'm not scared; I'm just bored.

  Valerie : [to the shark-headed sea monster]  Hey, are you going to threaten us or what?

  Valerie : [to Madison, when the sea monster doesn't respond]  You know, sea monsters are good for nothing.

• Madison : Now, let's talk about why you're here.

  Ronan : We know why we're here. The sea monsters want to open the Well of Power so they can overthrow merfolk.

  Valerie : And we all know that only a merperson from one of the five families can do it.

  Madison : Yeah. Couldn't have said it better myself. Right.

  [Ronan stalks off] 

  Valerie : [rolling her eyes]  He could have at least untied us.

• Madison : I just hope Will got our message.

  Valerie : I'm sure that he did... I'm not sure that he listened.