The Mermaid's Voice Returns in This One

by Amanda Lovelace

do you ever find yourself nostalgic for the life you never got to have? - (because i do.)

when i tell you i’m still waiting for my hogwarts letter, what i mean to say is i never meant to be here for so long. - forever wandering lost & wandless.

she didn’t kiss frogs. she kissed great white sharks.

you’re the kind of intriguing that inspired thousand-page epics. - how many centuries have you lived?

what’s the difference? - victim or survivor.

becoming your own savior sometimes means knowing when you need to ask for help.

i don’t write what i write to hurt you. - i write what i write to heal me.

“be stronger than the villains. be every storybook heroine come to life.”

if they treat you as anything less than royalty, then show them exactly what a mermaid-witch-queen like yourself can accomplish.

you are sad now. you are not sad forever.

nobody has the right to lure your voice out of you—