“I didn't know there were mermaids in the lake.”

“If you were a mermaid, you said, If you were a mermaid, I was the sea.”

“I didn't know till then the stars, in flakesof snow come down to fuck the earth, the lake.”

“You asked me who I thought I was before. I said maybe I was a fish because I love water and you said, you thought a mermaid, maybe.If you were a mermaid, you said, if you were a mermaid, I was the sea.”

“Vampires were myths, childhood stories– as were werewolves, mermaids and dragons. I believed none of it.”

“He's like a lake. You assume it has great depths, pure undisturbed undiscoverable depths. You assume depths must be there because the surface is so flat--pretty and flat and utterly unrevealing. Boring almost, you might say, if you didn't know about the depths, that is, if you didn't believe they were there.”