American Mermaid Quotes

“Do not go to war with women in a state of becoming. Their dark arts are deep and indomitable.”
― Julia Langbein, American Mermaid

“This is one of the dangers of their [teenagers] ineluctable depth: they live the poetry, the true value of the way words resonate and not their dictionary meanings or conventional uses. It's why teenage mouths are the hotbeds of slang, and its most natural environment. Some years only sounds would erupt: everyone saying "WOMP" to each other, because they liked the way it moved in their heads and echoed in their ears, big and rubbery and round.”
― Julia Langbein, American Mermaid

“How could we be readers, how could we be lovers of the impossible and the imagined, and not want to swell up with a new character, pull it onto land from a sea we made, and trick it by disappearing behind our hands?”
― Julia Langbein, American Mermaid