Siren Quotes

“The difference between my darkness and your darkness is that I can look at my own badness in the face and accept its existence while you are busy covering your mirror with a white linen sheet. The difference between my sins and your sins is that when I sin I know I'm sinning while you have actually fallen prey to your own fabricated illusions. I am a siren, a mermaid; I know that I am beautiful while basking on the ocean's waves and I know that I can eat flesh and bones at the bottom of the sea. You are a white witch, a wizard; your spells are manipulations and your cauldron from hell yet you wrap yourself in white and wear a silver wig.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“Books were a safe place, a world apart from my own. No matter what had happened that day, that year, there was always a story in which someone overcame their darkest hour. I wasn't alone.”
― Kiera Cass, The Siren

“If you swim effortlessly in the deep oceans, ride the waves to and from the shore, if you can breathe under water and dine on the deep treasures of the seas; mark my words, those who dwell on the rocks carrying nets will try to reel you into their catch. The last thing they want is for you to thrive in your habitat because they stand in their atmosphere where they beg and gasp for some air.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“Human?' The girl cocked her head the other way. I caught a glimpse of pink gills under her chin. 'My sisters told me stories of humans. They said they sometimes sing to them to lure them underwater.' She grinned, showing off her sharp needle-teeth. 'I've been practicing. Want to hear?”
― Julie Kagawa, The Iron King

“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

“She swore vengeance on all men with dark hearts.”
― Lisa Papademetriou, Siren's Storm

“There's always a siren, singing you to shipwreck. Some of us may be more susceptible than others are, but there's always a siren. It may be with us all our lives, or it may be many years or decades before we find it or it finds us. But when it does find us, if we're lucky we're Odysseus tied up to the ship's mast, hearing the song with perfect clarity, but ferried to safety by a crew whose ears have been plugged with beeswax. If we're not at all lucky, we're another sort of sailor stepping off the deck to drown in the sea.”
― Caitlín R. Kiernan, The Drowning Girl

“Every man needs his Siren
To check his courage and strength
When he hears her song
In his travels through the unknown.”
― Dejan Stojanovic

“You are the sun. You bring warmth, laughter and joy—but he is the moon. He draws me into a world of mystery that I have never known.”
― Meredith T. Taylor, Clashing Waters: The Obyascon Prince

“You've never heard a siren until you've heard one looking for you and you alone. Then you really hear it and know what it is and understand that the man who invented it was no man, but a fiend from hell who patched together sounds and blends of sounds in a way that could paralyze and sicken. . . . But when it is after you, it is the texture of the whole world. You will hear it until you die.”
― Elliott Chaze, Black Wings Has My Angel

“In your life, right here and now, things like mermaids, fairies, witches and monsters are nothing but fairytales told to your grandchildren and stories you heard from your own grandparents as children. They exist only in your imagination. Did you ever think that there is a chance all this was once real, that it all existed? Perhaps yes, but you would then consider such thoughts irrational, that even if you were to believe it and try telling someone they would think you for mad. In my world those creatures are real – I’m real, and I am here to tell you of a story that happened in eons past in the majestic island of Aster." - Queen of Merfolk Asteria - Ninemia”
― Marilena Mexi

“My heart leaps as I feel his breath there.

“Your enchantments last long after your song fades.”
― Tricia Levenseller, Daughter of the Siren Queen

“Shall we continue our discussion of the constellations for a while more?"

"Oh yes." As if we could still see the constellations while in his room. Blundering idiot.”
― Tricia Levenseller, Daughter of the Pirate King

“And just who claims to have seen me disobeying orders?"

"I saw you." idiot.”
― Tricia Levenseller, Daughter of the Siren Queen

“The place was in her blood, her bones, and her soul. Perhaps it was that siren song that called to her when she saw the edge where the water met the sky. Perhaps it was the peacefulness of the community itself. She didn't know.”
― Sharon Brubaker, Between Earth and Sea: A Selkie Tale

“The heart is as transparent as the depths of the ocean.”
― Meredith T. Taylor

“His love had given me life, and my love for him would be my last profession.”
― Meredith T. Taylor, Clashing Waters: The Obyascon Prince

“He had stirred my emotion and fractured my resistance, but I carried an unbreakable love.”
― Meredith T. Taylor, Clashing Waters: The Obyascon Prince

“The heart is as transparent as the depths of the ocean; One can only see until the light is gone.”
― Meredith T. Taylor, Clashing Waters: The Obyascon Prince

“My heart leaps as I feel his breath there.

“Your enchantments last long after your song fades.”
― Tricia Levenseller, Daughter of the Siren Queen

“If death were to come, it would not rob me of my final thoughts- they would not be in fear but of love.”
― Meredith T. Taylor, Clashing Waters: The Obyascon Prince

“Her expression morphed into all seasons at once.”
― Meredith T. Taylor, Clashing Waters: The Obyascon Prince

“I will give you time—and then I will claim your forever.”
― Meredith T. Taylor, Clashing Waters: The Obyascon Prince

“Fear is the greatest gauge for the things you value the most.”
― Meredith T. Taylor, Clashing Waters: The Obyascon Prince

“He hated himself for allowing his heart to be tossed by the waves of her flicking tongue. This Earth Mother who in one moment offered limitless hope—a glorious horizon that would inspire him to perform any heroic deed she might require—before hurtling him into the hollow despair of her disdain. The goddess had chosen another! Or perhaps no one at all. What mattered was that the lovely warmth of her gaze no longer shone upon you.”
― Philip Wyeth, Hot Ash and the Oasis Defect

“Hearing a siren isn't like seeing it.”
― Deniel Alraffly

“She is a siren of death, disturbingly beautiful and heartbreakingly deadly.”
― Ilse V. Rensburg, Time Torn

“Only in New Orleans could you find a siren, a werewolf, and an elf hanging out together in a bar.”
― Sara Reynolds, Silencing The Siren

“Still, there was something about her that drew me in like a siren calling to a sailor.
Destructive, certainly, but so beautiful it would almost be worth it
Almost. ”
― Ana Huang, King of Pride

“If I'm the siren, then he must be Poseidon, an angry god who commands my body like it's the ocean beneath his fingertips.”
― H.D. Carlton, Does It Hurt?