The Mermaid's Sister Quotes

“There's no cure for being who you truly are.”
― Carrie Anne Noble, The Mermaid's Sister

“Today is all we have, my dears. Today is all we ever have.”
― Carrie Anne Noble, The Mermaid's Sister

“Sometimes the plainest of things conceal the most unimaginable wonders,”
― Carrie Anne Noble, The Mermaid's Sister

“Evil and charismatic. A most dangerous combination.”
― Carrie Anne Noble, The Mermaid's Sister

“But you can’t erase a thing by not acknowledging it.”
― Carrie Anne Noble, The Mermaid's Sister

“Infatuation is easy to cure, if that is his problem. A little dandelion root, a sprig of hare-foot plant, a shaving of nutmeg, and a drop of moonrose nectar mixed into a cup of chamomile. True love is another story, I’m afraid. There is no cure for true love.”
― Carrie Anne Noble, The Mermaid's Sister

“I feel as if part of me is now made of sorrow, some new and tender organ that will pain me until the day I die. I know Maren is safe and well, and made beautiful in all ways. My grief is not for her but for myself—because I miss her . . . because she is missing from me.”
― Carrie Anne Noble, The Mermaid's Sister

“One chicken cannot sit on the whole world’s eggs.”
― Carrie Anne Noble, The Mermaid's Sister

“There is no cure for being who you truly are.”
― Carrie Anne Noble, The Mermaid's Sister

“I am losing her. I wish I would not. But wishing gets you nothing.”
― Carrie Anne Noble, The Mermaid's Sister

“I do not feel brave. I feel a hundred years old and very, very tired—yet wide awake with worry.”
― Carrie Anne Noble, The Mermaid's Sister

“Your truth is not the truth,” I say.”
― Carrie Anne Noble, The Mermaid's Sister

“Could I ever be as brave as the dream version of myself? I do not believe so.”
― Carrie Anne Noble, The Mermaid's Sister

“What I choose to believe does not change what is true.”
― Carrie Anne Noble, The Mermaid's Sister

“She adjusts her tunic-like dress and the silk whispers like sea on sand,”
― Carrie Anne Noble, The Mermaid's Sister

“Wanting is as bad as wishing, I suppose, if the one who wants does nothing.”
― Carrie Anne Noble, The Mermaid's Sister

“I hear nothing but the sound of my heart breaking into a million tiny pieces, each smaller than a single grain of sand.”
― Carrie Anne Noble, The Mermaid's Sister

“There is no cure for true love.”
― Carrie Anne Noble, The Mermaid's Sister

“O’Neill told me that Scarff once threw a gold pocket watch into the gaping mouth of an alligator because the incessant ticking drove him to distraction.”
― Carrie Anne Noble, The Mermaid's Sister

“I want to lie down on the sandy ground and go to sleep for a hundred years, to wake up after the world has righted itself somehow.”
― Carrie Anne Noble, The Mermaid's Sister

“Can you not hear the low bellows of the whales speaking to their children in the deepest deep?” No, I think. I hear nothing but the sound of my heart breaking into a million tiny pieces, each smaller than a single grain of sand.”
― Carrie Anne Noble, The Mermaid's Sister

“The world will continue, as it has for thousands upon thousands of years. We will live without our dear Maren. We will finish growing up and we will work and play and love. The sun and moon will take turns shining, clouds will sail across the skies, and rain will wash the earth. I will touch snow and smell flowers. Perhaps someday I will have a child, and I will tell her of her mermaid auntie. Or perhaps I will become a stork and fly wherever the winds take me.”
― Carrie Anne Noble, The Mermaid's Sister

“My trembling fingers pry the flap loose and the letter falls into my lap. The folded paper is onion-skin thin. Words crisscross over words like the dark tracks of ice skates upon a frozen pond.”
― Carrie Anne Noble, The Mermaid's Sister

“My grief is not for her but for myself—because I miss her . . . because she is missing from me.”
― Carrie Anne Noble, The Mermaid's Sister

“there is silence—the holy silence of winter,”
― Carrie Anne Noble, The Mermaid's Sister

“Job and January,”
― Carrie Anne Noble, The Mermaid's Sister

“I am tired,” I say. “I would like to rest.” “Nonsense. I just used my best manners, and therefore you must dance with me.”
― Carrie Anne Noble, The Mermaid's Sister

“Your truth is not the truth,”
― Carrie Anne Noble, The Mermaid's Sister

“Grief has its fingers about my throat and I can barely breathe.”
― Carrie Anne Noble, The Mermaid's Sister

“He takes my silly heart with him. I have lost all control of the blasted thing.”
― Carrie Anne Noble, The Mermaid's Sister