Carolyn Turgeon
Carolyn Turgeon is the author of five novels—Rain Village, Godmother, Mermaid, The Fairest of Them All, and The Next Full Moon, most of them based on old-time fairy tales, dark and glimmering—as well as The Faerie Handbook, The Mermaid Handbook, and The Unicorn Handbook.
She's also the editor-in-chief and co-owner of Enchanted Living (formerly Faerie Magazine), a quarterly print publication that the NY Times called “what would happen if Spenser’s The Faerie Queene and Martha Stewart Living had a magazine baby.”
She lives in Charlotte, North Carolina, with her punk rock rescue dog Iggy.
Visit Carolyn's website at carolynturgeon.com and Enchanted Living at enchantedlivingmag.com.
“Her face was like a pot of tea about to whistle.”
Carolyn Turgeon
“there are people all over the world who carry the mermaid inside them, that otherworldly beauty and longing and desire that made her reach for heaven when she lived in the darkness of the sea.”
Carolyn Turgeon
“Margrethe watched them paralyzed by the intensity of the emotions moving through her. So much pain and euphoria, a sense that even though her own heart was broken, the world could contain such beauty and magic she almost could not bear it? What did her own pain matter, in the face of that?”
Carolyn Turgeon
“Souls were webs of light that contained the essence of a human's life. Memories and loves, children and families. Every moment of life, pressing in”
Carolyn Turgeon
“Go and you will see that nothing is as wonderful as our dreams can make it”
Carolyn Turgeon
“I can't stop thinking about dying the way humans do it. Imagine! If at any moment, you could just stop existing. How different everything would be.." They don't stop existing Lenia said...They have souls that live forever. Even knowing that, they fight so hard to stay alive. I think it's so beautiful. Imagine: being that fragile, that permanent.”
Carolyn Turgeon
“How could none of them comprehend the beauty of a human soul,shining in heaven for eternity? Where it would be whole again, as they all had been once in times past?”
Carolyn Turgeon
“It's a never ending dream for everyone it seems, to find again what was once precious and has been lost.”
Carolyn Turgeon
“I'm here!" I said..."I'm read to go home!" As if they couldn't see me. As if I couldn't remember what it had been like, fluttering next to someone's ear and whispering into it. How the whole earth was like a musical instrument that we could play effortlessly....I could not fly. My sister was not there. My heart was broken.”
Carolyn Turgeon
“Tous mes anciens amours vont me revenir.'- All my old loves will be returned to me”
Carolyn Turgeon