The Little Mermaid Quotes

“Aphros nodded, a glint of pride in his eyes. “We have trained all the famous mer-heroes! Name a famous mer-hero, and we have trained him or her!”
“Oh, sure,” Leo said. “Like…um, the Little Mermaid?”
Aphros frowned. “Who? No! Like Triton, Glaucus, Weissmuller, and Bill!”
“Oh. ”Leo had no idea who any of those people were. “You trained Bill? Impressive.”
― Rick Riordan, The Mark of Athena

“At first she was overjoyed that he would be with her, but then she recalled that human people could not live under the water, and he could only visit her father's palace as a dead man.”
― Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid

“How agonizing it was,this life of silence and yearning. Yet how very worth it when his eyes found hers.”
― Marissa Meyer, The Little Android

“And unless I'm remembering it wrong, mermaids don't sing and sirens don't swim."
"Ariel sang in 'The Little Mermaid'," Corey said.
Sam came over to join us. "Do I even want to know why you remember her name?”
― Kelley Armstrong, The Calling

“It was the last night that she would
breathe the same air as he, or look out over the deep sea and up into the star-blue heaven. A dreamless,
eternal night awaited her, for she had no soul and had not been able to win one.”
― Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid and Other Tales

“We have no immortal souls; we have no future life; we are just like the green sea-weed, which, once cut down, can never revive again! Men, on the other hand, have a soul which lives for ever, lives after the body has become dust; it rises through the clear air, up to the shining stars!”
― Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid

“She would tell him that something in his smile had changed her,back when it shouldn't have been possible for her to be changed. She would tell him that she was the one who had saved his life because something about him made her unpredictable, and maybe dangerous, and she couldn't exist in a world without him.”
― Marissa Meyer, The Little Android

“I do love you. I love you enough to accept who you are. Why can’t I received the same feeling in return?”
-Ariel”
― Khalia Hades, Ariel's Demise

“Because she could not go near all these wonderful things, she longed for them all the more.”
― hans christian andersen

“...when a storm was coming on, and they anticipated that a ship might sink, they swam before it, and sang most sweetly of the delight to be found beneath the water, begging the seafarers not to be afraid of coming down below.”
― Hans Christian Anderson

“Not every fairy tale story that begins with 'Once upon a time,' has a 'Happily ever after'....”
― Khalia Hades, Ariel's Demise

“The woman looked at her heart in all of its fragments. Its voice was clear and true as it reminded her of the injustices done to it. Nothing so forlorn and broken could lie to her — could it? However, the woman was not a rational woman, and did not heed the beings’ warning. “Strip my humanity away, that I may never again walk in the race of men,” was her one wish.”
― Esther Dalseno, Drown

“Ariel: “Eric!”
Eric: “Do not sing me back to shore! Not until you are standing on two feet!”
― Khalia Hades, Ariel's Demise

“He had no desire to be a detective. All he wanted to do was right a wrong.

A wrong that never should have occurred in the first place.”
― Madisyn Carlin, Key

“So I shall die," said the little mermaid, "and as the foam of the sea I shall be driven about never again to hear the music of the waves, or to see the pretty flowers nor the red sun. Is there anything I can do to win an immortal soul?”
― Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid

“Running her fingers on the scales, she sighs. “I wonder what its like to be a human?”
“Why won’t you just go and find out?” the question startled her. She whirled around to come face to face with her evil aunt; Ursula.”
― Khalia Hades, Ariel's Demise

“Icy wisps of fear brushed her heart and a myriad of what ifs flooded her thoughts.

So much could go wrong. So many innocent lives could be lost.

“Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.”

Would the Scripts’ admonition ever sink into her worry-worn heart?”
― Madisyn Carlin, Key

“She probably fell asleep and was washed away by the tortoise waves!”
-Arista”
― Khalia Hades, Ariel's Demise

“Father, what are you to do now?”
Triton’s sneer grew scarier. “She broke the law.” turning away from the terrified faces of his daughters. “She must die.”
― Khalia Hades, Ariel's Demise

“How charming. The king and his little princess knocking on my covens door.” Ursula sighed dramatically. “What do you insolent merfolks want with me now? I swear I haven’t eaten any of your children.”
-Ursula”
― Khalia Hades, Ariel's Demise

“At this point, harking back to the stuff about souls, Andersen bolts on a perplexing Christian salvation message about how the Little Mermaid can earn a soul if she is good for three hundred years, but every time she sees 'a rude, naughty child', she'll get more time in purgatory. Don't be rude or naughty or the mermaids will suffer? Please. Even as a child, I knew this was ridiculous.”
― Samantha Ellis, How to Be a Heroine

“She has a strong instinct towards me.”
― Petra Hermans, Voor een betere wereld

“I would carry her, to the other Side of a safe Harbour, a good place to sleep.”
― Petra Hermans

“Turning Andersen around in Spanish:
In Círculo de los Suicidas Perezosos now”
― Doctor Krapp

“With all the strength remaining in her body, the little mermaid plunged the knife straight through the prince's back and into his heart.”
― Sarah Henning, Sea Witch

“(Ursula) She was a boss babe running a business, and doing it in style.”
― Lily Hart, Black Magic: How to Be a Bad Witch

“Her last conscious thought was of all the ships and seafarers who had been lost before her, still trapped in the wrecks that would rest forever on the ocean floor below.”
― Jacqueline E. Smith, Solstice Stories