Mermaiden Character Quotes & Sayings

I kept wanting to sit and rest, to curl up in a ball and think of nothing else. No, no, no. The light. I had to go toward the light. That almost made me laugh out loud. It was funny, really. Like I was someone having a near-death experience. Then I did laugh. This whole night had been full of near-death experiences. — Richelle Mead

The shaking had stopped, outwardly, but her mind couldn't hold a thought for any length of time without splintering apart. She took a deep breath, thought of a cliff above the sea, the taste of figs on her tongue, a man's finger touching the jut of her wrist, the sea so blue she thought it might drive her mad though she understood nothing of madness then — Kamila Shamsie

So when the blue smoke of brittle leaves was in the air and the wind blew the wet laundry stiff on the line I decided to come back home. — F Scott Fitzgerald

One thing about these storms, we know how disruptive things can be when we depend on the system to keep working. What would happen if the terrorists do it? Knock down the power, destroy bridges, cut the water supply? — Geraldo Rivera

Writing is the litmus paper of thoughtthe very center of schooling. — Ted Sizer

I'd like to see everything for myself, doctor. The whole world. — Emery Lord

I believe that all people allow the act of victimization to take lead in their lives without realizing or trying to stop it. You hear of another person's problems, automatically feel the need to salve their pain, so you make it your own. After a while, it no longer matters if the problem was yours to begin with. You absorb their pain into your body, your blood stream, your soul. It becomes yours. — Leigh Hershkovich

I tried not to read anything into his being there; things like this weren't serendipitous when you lived in the smallest town ever. — Heather Demetrios

A lot of the younger Indian generation are either IT geniuses or doctors - the number of doctors I've seen in L.A. who are Indian is just crazy. So it is a very common thing. Or an accountant! That again is a very, very big thing. — Freida Pinto

Who longs in solitude to live, Ah! soon his wish will gain: Men hope and love, men get and give, and leave him to his pain. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Pain itself, as a pure experience, is something different from the anxiety attached to it. — Linda Grant

Travel has been stepped up to such a speed that one can have dinner in New York and indigestion in Madrid ... — Sheila Ostrander

It is not humiliating to be unhappy. Physical suffering is sometimes humiliating, but the suffering of being cannot be, it is life. — Albert Camus

You kind of took it for granted around the Yankees that there was always going to be baseball in October. — Whitey Ford