The other one was filled with loud and obnoxious tourists. Always boasting on winning a sand castle competition and seeing who could get tanned first. What a whacky bunch of people.

I knew that it was impossible for us to be kept apart for too long.

Our pendants glowed in unison and I understood that they represented us – Siren and human intertwined for eternity.

I watched her shadow merge with the darker colours of the deep sea.

I was slightly thankful when Mom finally came out and unlocked the car. It was warm and toasty inside and it smelt like home. There was not the slightest smell of something that didn’t belong home.

Have you lost your mind? What have I told you Charlie about whales? You can’t MANHANDLE THEM!

Although nobody could ever know about our friendship, that wasn’t going to stop us from being together.

She snorted in amusement at my remark. “When are the guards going to start to notice?” Keith peered into the distance. “Starting now,

I closed my eyes and dived into foreign water.

I could have drowned today. If they hadn’t been screaming my name so loudly and if I hadn’t woken up, I would have drowned.

Next time when I dive into the territory that I had lived next to, where my sister grew up, I know what to expect. I would be ready. I would be prepared.

If you formulate your question properly, mathematics gives you the answer

This is what I learned: that everybody is talented, original and has something important to say.

The moment artists can just do what they love to do then music will go right back to where it used to be. I mean back in the '60s and '70s and '80s, that's what it was.

If they aren't real enough to surprise me, then they aren't real enough to go on the page.

Generally you don't initiate the projects - they're designed and you're inserted. Your material is edited by somebody. You feel a lack of power over your work.

They will attach you in the morning and they will come booming - skirmishers three deep. You will have to fight like the devil until supports arrive.

Democracy evolves where freedom is able to determine its own policy.

I'm not thinking about coaching, I'm thinking about heading to Washington, watching the world champions and my brother coach

You don't do anything to further your stay aboard a ship that you see is going to go down to the bottom of the ocean.

Grammar is not a set of arbitrary rules; it is a compact between people who wish to understand each other.