110 Quotes About Mermaids

He gave a sudden shake as if he couldn't stand to feel his life still holding on to him.

We are the descendants of Agwe and Calypso, conceived in the crescent waves under a crescent moon. Our cousins are the mermaids on the eastern shore, though long ago we chose land and earth over ocean and water. The waves still calls to us, for they remember our long-forgotten names. I suppose they always will.

How do you always know just what to say?" I ask. His laugh rumbles through me. "Practice, I guess."I pull back and give him a quizzical look."I spent three years imagining what I would say to you if you were mine," he says, tugging me close. "I should hope I know what to say now that I've got you.

I have seen them riding seaward on the waves Combing the white hair of the waves blown back When the wind blows the water white and black. We have lingered in the chambers of the sea By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown Till human voices wake us, and we drown.

What kind of woman was she anyway to give herself to a man just because of some mangroves and a few birds?

...either I’m losing my mind, or I saw mermaids." --Alec Costner, The Mermaid Coast

I was born in the water and I was born of the water.

Mermaids are not the monsters you humans think we are.

Enraptured by an aberration of beauty, I cannot move. I find myself helpless against a woman whose pale lips sing to me. Every note, every hymn that escapes those lips, I want to hear like a story being told to a child. I want to listen to its crinkled page as it turns, but more so, I desired this creature before me.