Words didn’t come. I couldn’t formulate a thought. I was too startled. These three figures lying in the sand in front of me weren’t surfers at all. They weren’t even people. From their facial features and upper torsos, they looked kind of like women, but all three of them had silver-colored skin. They were bald, with strange ridges marking their skulls. None of them seemed to have ears, only holes in the sides of their heads. No nose was visible, not even a bone or nostrils filled that space between their eyes and mouths. Although their mouths seemed to be moving, they were actually breathing through what looked like gills in their necks. And if that wasn’t weird enough, instead of legs, their upper torsos stretched out into long, scale-covered, silver fishtails. If I had to say what these things stranded in front of me, splattered with oil, appeared to be, I’d say mermaids. And no, they didn’t look like they’d start singing songs or granting me wishes. They looked a little bit scary–but fragile too. Most of all, they looked like they were going to die, and no handsome prince was there to kiss them and keep them from turning into sea foam. D.G. Driver
About This Quote

This quote is very powerful because it shows that people are more than what they look like. The writer of this quote was describing some mermaids that were stranded on the beach. They were not living beings, but rather, some sort of sea creatures. Even though these mermaids were stranded on the beach, they appeared to be very fragile and in need of help. The ones that experience this quote may have nightmares about being stranded on a beach, feeling alone, and no one coming to rescue them.

Source: Cry Of The Sea

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