Quotes / Our Mermaids Are Different

"I ran into them once when I was a whaler. They may be more beautiful than any woman you have seen, but they are as vicious as a blood-hungry shark! I know. I was the only member of my crew to survive."

— Eight-fingers Oba, Heroes of Might and Magic IV, "The Strait of the Lost"

Gym rat turned mermaid 1: So much for the lower body workout idea…
Gym rat turned mermaid 2: You think they'll let us use the pool then?

— "Refreshments"

We sail in leaky bottoms and on great and perilous waters; and to take a cue from the dolorous old naval ballad, we have heard the mer-maidens singing, and know that we shall never see dry land any more.

—Robert Louis Stevenson, "Virginibus Puerisque"

She was a mermaid equally at home on land and water because of her dual-membrane lungs, and she had everything I needed tucked under one beautiful big scale, and her glistening, wriggling, flopping body and melodious Siren's voice had me in love from day one when I hauled her up along with 600 pounds of Point Judith #3 calamari.

— David S Nelson, Falls Church VA, The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest 2015

When I was a lad in a fishing town, an old man said to me,
"You can spend your life, your jolly life, a-sailing on the sea.
You can search the world for pretty girls 'til your eyes grow weak and dim,
But don't go swimmin' with a mermaid, son, if you don't know how to swim!
'Cause her hair is green as sea-weed,
Her lips are blue and pale.
I'll tell you now before you start,
You can love that girl with all your heart,
But you'll only love the upper part;
You will NOT like the tail!"

— Shel Silverstein, "The Mermaid"

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