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

“In my nighttime dreams”
― 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