Ghost Quote by Dean Koontz

“Ms. Wrack's mother, Mrs. Wrack, had been a mermaid: a proper one who lived on a rock and combed her hair and sang. But…

— Eva Ibbotson

“There's always a siren, singing you to shipwreck. Some of us may be more susceptible than others are, but there's always a siren. It…

— Caitlín R. Kiernan

“I grow old … I grow old … I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled. Shall I part my hair behind? Do…

— T.S Eliot

“I always knew I'd be a sailor. In my cradle, playing with my toes, I knew it. What else could there have been? The…

— Carol Birch

Once the sailors heard it [the siren's song] all that mattered didn't matter anymore.

— Mitch Maurer

“Teach me to hear mermaids singing,”

— John Donne

“It seems to me that women would make much better sailors,” Miss Ophelia interjected, setting aside her cup of rosehip tea. “You men are…

— Diana Parparita

“She wore a loose bathrobe that covered up a body that would have won first prize in a beauty contest for cement blocks…She had…

— Richard Brautigan

“Fable of the Mermaid and the Drunks" All those men were there inside, when she came in totally naked. They had been drinking: they…

— Pablo Neruda

“Once, long ago, I heard the mermaids singing, but I do not think they will sing to me now.”

— Toby R. Beeny

“She was like a mermaid enrapturing me the sailor with all her charms!”

— Avijeet Das

“There in the sun; and Chanticleer so free Sang merrier than a mermaid in the sea (For Physiologus says certainly That they do sing,…

— Geoffrey Chaucer