The Mermaid's Sister Quotes

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

“The world is not at all what I thought it was. There is more magic in it, and more mystery, and more pain.”
― Carrie Anne Noble, The Mermaid's Sister

“Then again, as Auntie has said, what I choose to believe does not change what is true.”
― Carrie Anne Noble, The Mermaid's Sister

“I have examined the evidence and found good reason to declare that I will not become a stork.”
― Carrie Anne Noble, The Mermaid's Sister

“Your lives are wonders, my girls. They will be wonders from start to finish. Do you not remember the story of how you came to me?”
― Carrie Anne Noble, The Mermaid's Sister

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

“Thought he must be a lunatic—or too fond of the Communion wine or some such thing.”
― Carrie Anne Noble, The Mermaid's Sister

“Nevertheless, I ask—because my heart and mind refuse to quit quarreling. Because love and truth are in a tangle that I wish to unravel.”
― Carrie Anne Noble, The Mermaid's Sister

“Come now,”Auntie says. “We must not dwell on what will or will not be. Today we have Christmas. Today is all we have, my dears. Today is all we ever have.”Despite her brave words, Auntie has tears in her eyes as well.”
― Carrie Anne Noble, The Mermaid's Sister

“I roll over to face her. “What fun would the world be if everyone was sensible like me?” I say. “What fun would I have if you allowed me to sit about reading all day? You make me live, sister. You keep me from being boring and bored.”
― 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

“Leaning over to reach the dresser, I pick up a gilt-framed hand mirror and examine my face. It is still ordinary. His kiss left no mark on my skin. If only it had not left a mark on my heart.”
― Carrie Anne Noble, The Mermaid's Sister

“I am thankful for your bare feet,” I manage to say. “For I cannot imagine any shoes that might have complemented such an outfit.”
― Carrie Anne Noble, The Mermaid's Sister

“And what does it matter where my journey began, as long as I end it with you?”
― Carrie Anne Noble, The Mermaid's Sister

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

“Mrs. Smith points to my hip. “Your dress has deep pockets. I never make one without them.” The”
― Carrie Anne Noble, The Mermaid's Sister

“I have failed her by wishing when I ought to have been doing.”
― Carrie Anne Noble, The Mermaid's Sister

“There is no word for the emotion between pity and love, or for the one between longing and sorrow.”
― Carrie Anne Noble, The Mermaid's Sister

“She flicks her tail, flaunting her mermaidness as if O’Neill is a sailor she wishes to bring to ruin. He”
― Carrie Anne Noble, The Mermaid's Sister

“Her smile, I imagine, would not look out of place on a crocodile with a belly full of fresh antelope.”
― Carrie Anne Noble, The Mermaid's Sister

“Could I ever stop weeping if I allowed myself to begin now? Could the ocean contain such a flood? Beside”
― Carrie Anne Noble, The Mermaid's Sister

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

“Coffee,” he says. “It runs through my veins.”
― Carrie Anne Noble, The Mermaid's Sister

“he died while attempting to kidnap a mermaid.”
― Carrie Anne Noble, The Mermaid's Sister

“I miss her. I miss her as I’d miss my sight if I were suddenly blind. I miss her as a tree must miss its wealth of leaves come midwinter.”
― Carrie Anne Noble, The Mermaid's Sister

“There is no word for the emotion between pity and love, or for the one between longing and sorrow. Just as words cannot describe what I feel right now, something between envy and shame, and between compassion and disappointment. “We”
― Carrie Anne Noble, The Mermaid's Sister

“Inside my heart an ocean of tears swells and crashes, yet I do not cry. 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.”
― Carrie Anne Noble, The Mermaid's Sister

“over the sea.   Hear”
― Carrie Anne Noble, The Mermaid's Sister

“Clara,” he says, “why do you turn away from me?” I do not reply. He takes my arm and spins me around to face him again. “Do you not know?” Gently, he lifts my chin and forces me to look into his sparkling eyes. Suddenly, I do know. He does not need to say the words, but (miracle of miracles!) he does. “I love you, Clara.”
― Carrie Anne Noble, The Mermaid's Sister