Mermaid Quotes

“Where history saddened others, we felt only a glorious, burning anger. We liked the challenge of it. It suited us. Anger was our favorite emotion. We were at home in it. It gave us purpose.”
― Rivers Solomon, The Deep

“In grave danger of suffocation, the mermaid peeled away from him and emitted a sonar wail that woke drowned sailors from their oyster beds.”
― Kevin Ansbro, The Minotaur's Son & Other Wild Tales

“In your veins flows a mermaid’s blood, so be a mermaid.”
― Anton Chekhov, Uncle Vanya

“She left two mermaid tears, crystals with a bit of salt embedded in them, on his pillow.”
― Jane Yolen, How to Fracture a Fairy Tale

“Lots of people do not feel and do not care, deeply. They're the sea creatures who were born to swim in the shallows. And I think that they look at those of us who come from the parts of the ocean that's pitch black and deeper than the core of the planet and they feel fascinated. They're fascinated in the way we are fascinated with eagles or with vampires. They think we're unabashedly deep and beautiful and they feel like they want to try being that way, too. It's like a fascination for a mystical creature. But I have watched these kinds of people burn out before they ever reach that depth (not even close). They burn out because they just get so exhausted! You only have the set of lungs designed for the depths of the ocean, if you are the type of creature who was born in those depths. It's not a regimen, it's not a list of rules, it's not a succession of steps to get there. It's about anatomy. There are creatures for the shallows and creatures for the deep. It is nature's designer plan. And when these people burn out, they will have these outbursts wherein they lash out at you, as if they are exasperated at why you're a mermaid in the black of the seas, and if they could, they'd drag you into a glass tank and chain you up because they don't want that kind of beauty around them, outshining them. Feeling and living in the depths of life (caring so much it hurts, feeling so much it becomes painful) is a mystical, beautiful thing but it cannot be copied and it shouldn't be copied. Everyone has their place and you are going to drown if you can't breathe underwater.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“I am made up of light and shadows. I am both mother & inner child. Healing and evolving. I run with the wolves and dive deep with salty sea queens. I am captivated by fiery skies and phases of the moon. I am her and she is me. Together we are wise, wild and free.”
― Ríonach

“Why do you sleep so late?" he asked the mermaid. "Because the shadows are pretty and the lights look like stars in the sky." said the mermaid.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“Of all the merfolk, Keeper loved Yemaya best. Goddess of the deep. Yemaya. If you gave her a gift, she might grant a wish.”
― Kathi Appelt, Keeper

“She was the mermaid enrapturing me the sailor with all her charms!”
― Avijeet Das

“She is the mermaid enrapturing me the sailor with all her charms!”
― Avijeet Das

“Love alone can make a human abandon his heart and home, and love for a handsome fisherman alone can separate a small mermaid from the sea to the point of scooting alone an dry rocky terrain and ignoring the pain and suffering of the land.”
― Moniro Ravanipour, اهل غرق

“When the denizens of the land arrive in the depths of the blue waters, aquatic love takes them into its shelter, they forget the sound of the anklets of the daughters of the land, they sleep with the mermaids, and afterwards, they sigh with regret for the warmth they have lost, they long for weeping, and awaiting a reed flute player, they stare at the far-away surface of the water.”
― Moniro Ravanipour, The Drowned

“Blood calls to blood; charm calls to charm.
It is the way of the world.
Come close and tell us your dreams.

--The Mermaids”
― Susann Cokal, Mermaid Moon

“I have a mermaid tattoo on my ankle because mermaids are not afraid of depths, of storms, and of men. The mermaid is, in my opinion, the most powerful archetype for the modern day woman; courageously braving mental challenges and emotional storms in a world dominated by men. Mermaids are never caught; they are only dreamt of, longed for. And if you want to stay with one, you must learn to breathe underwater, learn to enter her oceans. You, too, must become more than mundane.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“Men are afraid of mermaids. They want to be near mermaids, but, they're afraid of them. Because a man needs to swim with a mermaid while a boat feels safer. Lots of men want to stay in a boat because they're afraid of drowning. But a mermaid knows: life is just not worth living if you're not ready to drown a few times.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“Maybe the choice to love is magic everyone has.”
― Brianna Tibbetts, Head Over Tails

“She had been right to fear him. And he’d been a fool to think she shouldn’t.”
― Tiffany Roberts, Make Me Burn

“I truly didn’t mean you harm,” he said.

“I know,” she whispered, “but you never meant for me to be free, either.”
― Tiffany Roberts, Make Me Burn

“Whether you’re a hallucination or flesh and blood, I’ve never seen anyone so exquisite.”

“Why do you pursue me?”

“Because I am compelled to.”
― Tiffany Roberts, Make Me Burn

“This creature was so enticing that he guessed he might be chasing after her forever if he didn’t change his approach.”
― Tiffany Roberts, Make Me Burn

“your eyes are stars guiding me
your heart is the ocean of love
i am the sailor looking for my mermaid
are you the mermaid i see in my dreams?”
― Avijeet Das

“She was a thinner, prettier version of her mother with huge sea-green eyes and straight, long hair the color of golden copper. She hadn’t made peace with her small breasts, huge flat feet or the freckles that spilled across her pert nose but Glorie said she was nice-looking enough to have modeled for any one of the mermaid prints that hung on the walls.”
― Eleyne-Mari Sharp, Inn Lak'ech

“Don't thank me yet. Your human looks decidedly stale. Have you given her any water?"

He frowned. "Why would I do that when there's water all around?"

"She can't ingest seawater, crustacean-head. Don't you know anything about landwellers?”
― Anela Deen, Beneath Cruel Fathoms

“There, with bare feet and drenched brown hair, crouched a child. Upon hearing Helen, the little one looked up until Helen peered into the eyes of a tiny girl. She seemed to wear only an enormous men’s sweater, with no identifying tag pinned to the front. Her knees were pulled up inside of it, thin pale ankles peeking out from underneath. The wool shirt alone was dry, as the rest of the girl’s head, hands, and feet were as wet as if she’d just been pulled from drowning. Tiny rivers flowed off her hair and pooled on the wool sweater, leaving it dark in splotches. Water droplets glistened on her skin, not running off, as though they couldn’t quite bear to leave her.”
― Corinne Beenfield, The Ocean's Daughter :

“I'm a princess and sometimes I'm a fairy, and I'm a mermaid too.' I thought she was marvellous. She knew her own worth, she insisted on it. She knew that no matter how miserable the circumstances in which life placed her, she was better than that. She knew that a part of her was special and remarkable, and she was able to articulate that in her own way.”
― Elizabeth McCracken, Bowlaway

“At the ends of the extended spinal cord, a few long, thin bones stretched out on either side. Almost like… a fish tail.”
― Emily Layne, These Wicked Waters

“Fifteen-year-old Jo was very long and lanky, and reminded one of a skinny squid whose appendages sprouted too fast. She never seemed to know what to do with her emerald tail, which was energetic and very much in her way.”
― Megan Lois Whitehill, Little Women: Mermaid Edition

“Very few letters-in-bottles in those hard times were not touching. Especially so were those letters-in-bottles which fathers sent home.”
― Megan Lois Whitehill, Little Women: Mermaid Edition

“Somehow the sea-flowers finished Meg’s despondency. She tucked the glow blooms into her shell corset, and wove the fin fronds into her hair. Then she swam out and enjoyed herself, for she danced to her heart’s content.”
― Megan Lois Whitehill, Little Women: Mermaid Edition

“They did not share a language, but an understanding that loneliness was as damaging as hunger, pain, or fear.”
― John Anders Erickson, Stjerne: Mermaid Tails