A Survival Guide for Landlocked Mermaids Quotes

“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

“A mermaid is not frightened by her own duality. She is a walking contradiction of piety and lust, sobriety and ecstasy, brilliance and stubborness, the sacred and the scandalous.

...so dance with your own inner paradox.”
― Margot Datz, A Survival Guide for Landlocked Mermaids

“It's not easy being yourself because it can invite envy and attention. But if you hide your authentic self from the rest of the world, a unique life will pass you by. There is splendor in being true to yourself.”
― Margot Datz, A Survival Guide for Landlocked Mermaids

“Hang on to your integrity and misbehave with dignity.”
― Margot Datz, A Survival Guide for Landlocked Mermaids

“To be captured as a trophy and than have our emotions neglected is tragic. We might as well be stuffed and mounted on a wall!”
― Margot Datz, A Survival Guide for Landlocked Mermaids

“Perhaps you feel the stirrings of a wild feminine creature within, a long to leap out of the fishbowl of familiarity into the turbulent unknown.”
― Margot Datz, A Survival Guide for Landlocked Mermaids

“We yearn to be fully immersed in the weightless world of our free spirit's true home, where our playful natures return to us with each sweep of our fantails, and protocol is silenced by a far more joyful call of the sea.”
― Margot Datz, A Survival Guide for Landlocked Mermaids

“Each pearl is a jewel of wisdom, wrestled from struggle and strung in sequence to create infinite insight and compassion for the mermaid who wears them. The older the mermaid, the more pearls.”
― Margot Datz, A Survival Guide for Landlocked Mermaids

“No matter where you float in the sea of love, it is important to see all the love around you. The universe is brimming and swimming with all shapes, colors and sizes of love - A beautiful coral reef of variety that's yours for the sharing. An open heart is seldom lonely.”
― Margot Datz, A Survival Guide for Landlocked Mermaids

“A solid commitment splices two lives together and holds through the storms.”
― Margot Datz, A Survival Guide for Landlocked Mermaids

“There's nothing like love. It's worth all the storm surges and slack tides that go with it.”
― Margot Datz, A Survival Guide for Landlocked Mermaids

“Sadness can run a mermaid aground on the mudflats of despair. But her tears make the ocean deeper.”
― Margot Datz, A Survival Guide for Landlocked Mermaids

“It's like trying to waltz with an amchor.”
― Margot Datz, A Survival Guide for Landlocked Mermaids