Elaine

“It occurred to me that there have always been selkie women: women who did not seem to belong to this world, because they did not fit into prevailing notions of what women were supposed to be. And if you did not fit into those notions, in some sense you weren't a woman. Weren't even quite human. The magical animal woman is, or can be, a metaphor for those sorts of women.”
― Theodora Goss

“They lived their lives only for the hour that lay ahead of them.”
― Ann Patchett, Bel Canto

“It's a wonder they can sit down at all, and when they walk, nothing touches their legs under the billowing skirts, except their shifts and stockings. They are like swans, drifting along on unseen feet; or else like the jellyfish in the waters of the rocky harbour near our house, when I was little, before I ever made the long sad journey across the ocean. They were bell-shaped and ruffled, gracefully waving and lovely under the sea; but if they washed up on the beach and dried out in the sun there was nothing left of them. And that is what the ladies are like: mostly water.”
― Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace

“I floated like driftwood in the ocean. I wasn’t worried about sharks, because my bathtub is much too shallow.”
― Jarod Kintz, 99 Cents For Some Nonsense