Stacey

“Nobody wants to admit that mermaids who survive the dangers of the ocean can still be defeated by their own pain." He links his fingers through mine. He squeezes my hand until I look back.

"A mermaid's heart is the most fragile thing in the sea. You've somehow managed to keep yours beating. The shield doesn't matter. What matters is you're a survivor.”
― Emm Cole, Keeping Merminia

“O love, O fire! once he drew
With one long kiss my whole soul through
My lips, as sunlight drinketh dew.”
― Alfred Lord Tennyson

“A world of grief and pain
Flowers bloom
Even then”
― Kobayashi Issa, The Spring of My Life and Selected Haiku

“There is, one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath...”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale