Faces Quote by Maureen Johnson

I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back, Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, That the rude sea grew…

— William Shakespeare

I don't like the sound of my phone ringing so I put my phone inside my fish tank. I can't hear it, but every…

— Steven Wright

You came back fighting and furious at me. You told me you'd been looking for mermaids, and I interrupted you. [...] I said that…

— Jodi Picoult

I started early, took my dog, And visited the sea; The mermaids in the basement Came out to look at me

— Emily Dickinson

If you sing to the mermaids, they come when you're drowning.

— Tori Amos

It was like falling down an elevator shaft and landing in a pool full of mermaids.

— Hunter S. Thompson

I can't even dial one phone number right away. But you strained your own body to go and see them. I was surprised. The…

— Arina Tanemura

It was like letting go and falling back into water and seeing yourself grinning up through the water, your face like a mask, and…

— Jean Rhys

I felt like I'd been swimming so hard, and the water growing warmer and warmer the closer I got to the top. I wasn't…

— Sarah Dessen

“Teach me to hear mermaids singing,”

— John Donne

“What you have to understand about the mermaid legend is that it's universal. No matter where you go, the mermaids got there first. Even…

— Mira Grant

At Blackwater Pond the tossed waters have settled after a night of rain. I dip my cupped hands. I drink a long time. It…

— Mary Oliver