When all is done, you must look in your own heart to know the truth. It lies at some middle depth, half-truths above, half-truths below. Even my truth, what I tell you know, is colored...

Probably not, but we can pretend.

The next best thing to making love to a mermaid, is having sex with a fish.

But it hadn’t just been Sebastian who had been watching me. Rather, it had been tribes of merman and mermaids, who had been curious about this newcomer in town that could outswim any school of...

If you swim effortlessly in the deep oceans, ride the waves to and from the shore, if you can breathe under water and dine on the deep treasures of the seas; mark my words, those...

I noticed him right away. No, it wasn’t his lean, rugged face. Or the dark waves of shiny hair that hung just a little too long on his forehead. It wasn’t the slim, collarless biker...

I left Mermaid’s Bar and Grill about 2:00 am, and fishtailed out of the parking lot.

Narissa, let me take you away to a world that you have never known to exist.

It is the simple things that are in the ocean. People think that simple things are on the seashore, like seashells. But seashells are just illusions of the things that once used to live inside...

He’d used the amulet to read my thoughts again. I pictured smacking him in the face.

It was a woman–as pale and luminescent as a ghost, with swirling white hair. Ezra startled, dropping his pencil into the water. Her face snapped toward him. Her eyes were too large, clear green, and...

Darwin may have been quite correct in his theory that man descended from the apes of the forest, but surely woman rose from the frothy sea, as resplendent as Aphrodite on her scalloped chariot.

The difference between my darkness and your darkness is that I can look at my own badness in the face and accept its existence while you are busy covering your mirror with a white linen...

Matt was almost completely naked. A tattered loincloth and an ugly chain with a yellow diamond were his only apparel.

I think every little girl’s dream is to be a mermaid or to see a mermaid. [When I was younger] I would go to the beach and cover myself in the sand. People from different...

Up the still, glistening beaches,Up the creeks we will hie,Over banks of bright seaweedThe ebb-tide leaves dry.We will gaze, from the sand-hills,At the white, sleeping town;At the church on the hill-side—And then come back down.Singing:...

You want to hear more now, do you?

Rough palms cradled my face while my fingers gripped the pillow on either side of his. Lips, teeth, tongue, mingled together. I ate him up and didn’t let go until I had to come up...

Even if they are fictional, I always thought that mermaids were beautiful creatures. Of course, they don’t compare to you, but still…

Maybe I’m still the mermaid. Maybe the ocean is your hand.

We designate the spirit of the well as ‘she’ because in most of her personifications she takes a female form, though not invariably. She appears in many guises – ghost, witch, saint, mermaid, fairy, and...

MagicSandra’s seen a leprechaun,Eddie touched a troll,Laurie danced with witches once,Charlie found some goblins gold.Donald heard a mermaid sing,Susy spied an elf,But all the magic I have knownI’ve had to make myself.

I’ve never been able to stand up for myself while growing up, but I will stand up for you against anyone who ever threatens to hurt you in any way.

Start with your heart, and only good can follow!

I am a creature of the Fey Prepare to give your soul away My spell is passion and it is art My song can bind a human heart And if you chance to know my...

I grow old … I grow old … I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach?I shall wear white flannel trousers, and...

There’s nothing easier to ‘acquire’ than a girl with a broken heart.

Hazel blue anemone in a little SeaSide cave…drawing currents from the sea turquoise blue on sparkling waves. In ocean dreams, the poet waits by his grotto, passing days. Rhyming verse, his mind creates where his...

You know that’s why mermaids swim around topless all the time, right? It’s because their boobs are too big and all bras are C shells.

No I am not Prince Hamlet nor was meant to be Am an attendant lord one that will do To swell a progress start a scene or two Advise the prince no doubt an easy...

I can’t, Muffin. I can’t talk to him.Why? He was good enough to sleep with, but not good enough to talk to now that he know’s that you’re part fish?

Stand still while I yell at you.

Peter was not with them for the moment, and they felt rather lonely up there by themselves. He could go so much faster than they that he would suddenly shoot out of sight, to have...

I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they will sing to me.

I am the mermaid of desire. Half man, half aquatic creature, I fish for my other half.

I’m always happy when I’m surrounded by water, I think I’m a Mermaid or I was a mermaid.The ocean makes me feel really small and it makes me put my whole life into perspective… it...

You deserved it.

Ms. Wrack’s mother, Mrs. Wrack, had been a mermaid: a proper one who lived on a rock and combed her hair and sang. But sailors had never been lured to their doom by her, partly...

wordslike mysterious mermaids come and live permanentlyin the soft sweepsand scars of my skin.

Human?’ The girl cocked her head the other way. I caught a glimpse of pink gills under her chin. ‘My sisters told me stories of humans. They said they sometimes sing to them to lure...

Basically, everyone thinks–knows–how sweet I am.Emma, you threw my sister through hurricane-proof glass.

Tomorrow, I need you to die.

When a fish kills another fish, it’s not fishing—it’s hunting. And when a woman kills a mermaid, it’s not fishing, it’s half crazy—from the waste down.

Oh Trysten, I don’t care who you are, or what you can become, but I love you for loving me.