Carrie Anne Noble > Quotes

“There's no cure for being who you truly are.”
― Carrie Anne Noble, The Mermaid's Sister

“Today is all we have, my dears. Today is all we ever have.”
― Carrie Anne Noble, The Mermaid's Sister

“Evil and charismatic. A most dangerous combination.”
― Carrie Anne Noble, The Mermaid's Sister

“Sometimes the plainest of things conceal the most unimaginable wonders,”
― Carrie Anne Noble, The Mermaid's Sister

“Infatuation is easy to cure, if that is his problem. A little dandelion root, a sprig of hare-foot plant, a shaving of nutmeg, and a drop of moonrose nectar mixed into a cup of chamomile. True love is another story, I’m afraid. There is no cure for true love.”
― Carrie Anne Noble, The Mermaid's Sister

“But you can’t erase a thing by not acknowledging it.”
― Carrie Anne Noble, The Mermaid's Sister

“Wishing gets you nothing.”
― Carrie Anne Noble

“I feel as if part of me is now made of sorrow, some new and tender organ that will pain me until the day I die. I know Maren is safe and well, and made beautiful in all ways. My grief is not for her but for myself—because I miss her . . . because she is missing from me.”
― Carrie Anne Noble, The Mermaid's Sister

“There is no cure for being who you truly are.”
― Carrie Anne Noble, The Mermaid's Sister

“I am losing her. I wish I would not. But wishing gets you nothing.”
― Carrie Anne Noble, The Mermaid's Sister

“One chicken cannot sit on the whole world’s eggs.”
― Carrie Anne Noble, The Mermaid's Sister

“Your truth is not the truth,” I say.”
― Carrie Anne Noble, The Mermaid's Sister

“I do not feel brave. I feel a hundred years old and very, very tired—yet wide awake with worry.”
― Carrie Anne Noble, The Mermaid's Sister

“Wanting is as bad as wishing, I suppose, if the one who wants does nothing.”
― Carrie Anne Noble, The Mermaid's Sister

“He didn't care now, not while the world wore such incredibly bright colors. Not while his blood sang the song of the stars inside his veins.”
― Carrie Anne Noble, The Gold-Son

“There is no cure for true love.”
― Carrie Anne Noble, The Mermaid's Sister

“What I choose to believe does not change what is true.”
― Carrie Anne Noble, The Mermaid's Sister

“Could I ever be as brave as the dream version of myself? I do not believe so.”
― Carrie Anne Noble, The Mermaid's Sister

“O’Neill told me that Scarff once threw a gold pocket watch into the gaping mouth of an alligator because the incessant ticking drove him to distraction.”
― Carrie Anne Noble, The Mermaid's Sister

“Can you not hear the low bellows of the whales speaking to their children in the deepest deep?” No, I think. I hear nothing but the sound of my heart breaking into a million tiny pieces, each smaller than a single grain of sand.”
― Carrie Anne Noble, The Mermaid's Sister

“I want to lie down on the sandy ground and go to sleep for a hundred years, to wake up after the world has righted itself somehow.”
― Carrie Anne Noble, The Mermaid's Sister

“She adjusts her tunic-like dress and the silk whispers like sea on sand,”
― Carrie Anne Noble, The Mermaid's Sister

“The fever lit on the town of Loughgillan like a flock of Death's own crows, at first perching wherever their talons could grip easily--upon the very old and the very young. And then, the birds seemed to settle anywhere and everywhere.”
― Carrie Anne Noble, The Gold-Son

“I hear nothing but the sound of my heart breaking into a million tiny pieces, each smaller than a single grain of sand.”
― Carrie Anne Noble, The Mermaid's Sister

“My grief is not for her but for myself—because I miss her . . . because she is missing from me.”
― Carrie Anne Noble, The Mermaid's Sister

“Sometimes it is unwise to tamper with the inevitable" -Auntie Vertiy”
― Carrie Anne Noble, The Mermaid's Sister

“Gold was sweet, but its thrill never lasted, and it would never love him back, no matter how devoted he was to it.”
― Carrie Anne Noble, The Gold-Son

“When the gold lust came, it hit him hard, like an unexpected left hook to the nose followed by a punch in the gut. The world swayed before his eyes as he stopped to lean against the churchyard’s stone wall.”
― Carrie Anne Noble, The Gold-Son

“Could I ever stop weeping if I allowed myself to begin now? Could the ocean contain such a flood? Beside”
― Carrie Anne Noble, The Mermaid's Sister

“I wish you’d stay forever, I think. I wish that I would not wish so often.”
― Carrie Anne Noble, The Mermaid's Sister