“I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.”
― Anais Nin
“I address you all tonight for who you truly are: wizards, mermaids, travelers, adventurers, and magicians. You are the true dreamers.”
― Brian Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret
“There is, one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath…”
― Herman Melville
“The mermaid is an archetypal image that represents a woman who is at ease in the great waters of life, the waters of emotion and sexuality. She shows us how to embrace our instinctive sexuality and sensuality so that we can affirm the essence of our feminine nature, the wisdom of our bodies, and the playfulness of our spirits. She symbolizes our connection with our deepest instinctive feelings, our wild and untamed animal nature that exists below the surface of outward personalities. She is able to respond to her mysterious sexual impulses without abandoning her more human, conscious side. What happened to the girls who dreamed of being mermaids?”
― Anita Johnston, Eating in the Light of the Moon: How Women Can Transform Their Relationship with Food Through Myths, Metaphors, and Storytelling
“Mermaids don’t drown.”
― Suzanne Palmieri
“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.”
― Margot Datz, A Survival Guide for Landlocked Mermaids
“Many of us have this view of ourselves being “captains of our ships”, and just like the old adage, “the captain goes down with his ship”; we sit on our adamant moral high horses and would rather go down with our ships than let go of something to give it, and ourselves, a chance at something better. But I’m a mermaid. We don’t go down with ships. We don’t try to conquer the ocean; we swim and flow with the waves. We sink the ships that need to be sunk and we save the people that need to be saved.”
― C. JoyBell C.
“These dreams of far-off islands, lighthouses… What were they about? Like something calling me. That postcard my dad had sent, who knew when, with an image of an island in the Atlantic. I kept thinking of this National Geographic story I had read as a kid, about a matrilineal family of lighthouse keepers in Iceland, women who wore sealskin coats and were said by the locals to be descended from a Selkie woman. The Icelandic mermaids. Maybe I was like that— too much time on the land, forgetting my true mermaid self, having lost my sea skin.”
― Victoria Benton Frank, The Violet Hour
“Have you ever stood on the sand of the seashore and looked out at the ocean? Did you wonder what secrets it held beneath its glimmering, shimmering waves? Or what mysteries lay hidden deep in its many lagoons, caverns, and trenches?
We can only imagine what tales and treasures the ocean holds. After all, only mermaids would be able to live in such a magical place.”
― Courtney Carbone, Mermaids!: A Coloring and Activity Book for Kids
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