Sea Quotes - Page 39

• His books are kept on freestanding shelves hung at different angles on a sea-green wall. They defy gravity, as good books should.

  David Levithan

  Wall, Book, Different

  David Levithan (2009). “Boy Meets Boy”, p.46, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• The state of our civilization manifests itself both in the non-problems that terrify us beyond all reason - rising sea levels - and in the real problems we pay no heed to [population decline]...In reality, much of the planet will be uninhabited long before it's uninhabitable

  Mark Steyn

  Real, Civilization, Long

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• They sped by a pack of sea lions lounging on the docks, and she swore she saw an old homeless guy sitting among them. From across the water the old man pointed a bony finger at Percy and mouthed something like 'Don't even think about it.' "Did you see that?" Hazel asked. Percy's face was red in the sunset. "Yeah. I've been here before. I...I don't know. I think I was looking for my girlfriend." "Annabeth," Frank said. "You mean, on your way to Camp Jupiter?" Percy frowned. "No. Before that.

  Rick Riordan

  Girlfriend, Sunset, Mean

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• We look at mountains and call them eternal, and they seem... but in the course of time, mountains rise and fall, rivers change their courses, starts fall from the sky, and great cities sink beneath the sea. Even gods die, we think. Everything changes.

  George R. R. Martin

  Fall, Thinking, Sky

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.1035, Bantam

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• I would have written you, myself, if I could put down in words everything I want to say to you. A sea of ink would not be enough.' 'But you built me dreams instead.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Dream, Ink, Want

  FaceBook post by Erin Morgenstern from Aug 10, 2014

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• It was a dark, blustery afternoon in spring, and the city of London was chasing a small mining town across the dried-out bed of the old North Sea.

  Philip Reeve

  Spring, Dark, Cities

  Philip Reeve (2012). “Predator Cities x 4 and The Traction Codex”, p.13, Scholastic UK

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• When I'm wasted, I can almost forget who I am," he said, his smile fading slightly. "I know I'm still there, but only barely. It's a good place to be." He tipped back the thermos, eyes on the dark sea straight ahead

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Eye, Dark, Who I Am

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.434, Simon and Schuster

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• Winkin', Blinkin', and Nod, one night sailed off in a wooden shoe; Sailed off on a river of crystal light into a sea of dew. "Where are you going and what do you wish?" the old moon asked the three. "We've come to fish for the herring fish that live in this beautiful sea. Nets of silver and gold have we," said Winkin', Blinkin', and Nod.

  Eugene Field

  Beautiful, Moon, Night

  Eugene Field (2012). “The Works of Eugene Field Vol. IV: Poems of Childhood”, p.44, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The scent of the sea, a wild turbulent storm, crashing into her mind. Elena, why is Dmitri naked?

  Nalini Singh

  Mind, Storm, Naked

  Nalini Singh (2012). “Nalini Singh: Guild Hunters Novels 1-4”, p.386, Penguin

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• It's a very cheery thing to come into London by any of these lines which run high and allow you to look down upon the houses like this." I thought he was joking, for the view was sordid enough, but he soon explained himself. "Look at those big, isolated clumps of buildings rising up above the slates, like brick islands in a lead-coloured sea." "The board-schools." "Light-houses, my boy! Beacons of the future! Capsules with hundreds of bright little seeds in each, out of which will spring the wiser, better England of the future.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Running, Spring, School

  Arthur Conan Doyle, General Press (2016). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes: All 56 Stories & 4 Novels”, p.340, GENERAL PRESS

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• I imagined loading the God of the Sea into a taxi and taking him to the Upper East Side.

  Rick Riordan

  Upper East Side, Sides, Taxi

  Rick Riordan (2013). “Percy Jackson: The Complete Series”, p.244, Penguin UK

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• Jungians such as Joseph Campbell have generalised such journeys into a set of archetypal events and images. Though they can be useful in criticism, I mistrust them as fatally reductive. “Ah, the Night Sea Voyage!” we cry, feeling that we have understood something important — but we’ve merely recognised it. Until we are actually on that voyage, we have understood nothing.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Night, Journey, Feelings

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• When I was a child I truly loved: Unthinking love as calm and deep As the North Sea. But I have lived, And now I do not sleep.

  John Gardner

  Children, Sleep, Calm

  John Gardner (2010). “Grendel”, p.116, Vintage

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• Death, I need my little addiction to you. I need that tiny voice who, even as I rise from the sea, all woman, all there, says kill me, kill me.

  Anne Sexton

  Voice, Addiction, Needs

  Anne Sexton (1978). “Words for Dr. Y.: uncollected poems with three stories”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• Images flashed through his mind. He saw Nico and his sister on a snowy mountain cliff in Maine, Percy Jackson protecting them from the manticore. Percy's sword gleamed in the dark. He'd been the first demigod Nico had ever seen in action. Later at Camp Half-Blood, Percy took Nico by the arm, promising to keep his sister Bianca safe. Nico believed him. Nico looked into his sea-green eyes and though, How can he possibly fail? This is a real hero.

  Rick Riordan

  Real, Hero, Eye

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• I was adrift in a sea of questions and if answers were lifeboats, I was in imminent danger of drowning.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Answers, Adrift, Drowning

  Karen Marie Moning (2008). “Faefever: Fever Series”, p.49, Delacorte Press

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• The men loved jokes, though they had heard each one before. Jack's manner was persuasive; few of them had seen the old stories so well delivered. Jack himeself laughed a little, but he was able to see the effect his performance had on his audience. The noise of their laughter roared like the sea in his ears. He wanted it louder and louder; he wanted them to drown out the war with their laughter. If the could should loud enough, they might bring the world back to its senses; they might laugh loud enough to raise the dead.

  Sebastian Faulks

  Laughter, War, Men

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• He missed you like a fish in a bowl misses the open sea.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Missing, Missed You, Fishes

  Catherynne M. Valente (2013). “The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two”, p.141, Feiwel & Friends

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• Great seas," he said. "What do you want?" He held the candle up to her face. "Po, what do you want?" "She did a far better job than I would've done.

  Kristin Cashore

  Jobs, Done, Want

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• The sea can do craziness, it can do smooth, it can lie down like silk breathing or toss havoc shoreward; it can give gifts or withhold all; it can rise, ebb, froth like an incoming frenzy of fountains, or it can sweet-talk entirely. As I can too, and so, no doubt, can you, and you.

  Mary Oliver

  Sweet, Lying, Breathing

  Mary Oliver (2012). “A Thousand Mornings: Poems”, p.41, Penguin

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• With his back to us, Sean tugs the halter from the mare's head. She kicks out, but he steps out of the way as if it were nothing at all. With a shake of her mane, she leaps mightily into the water. For a moment she struggles over the waves, and then she is swimming. Just a wild black horse in a deep blue sea full of the ashes of other dead boys.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Horse, Struggle, Swimming

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “The Scorpio Races”, p.330, Scholastic UK

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• What hands are here? ha! they pluck out mine eyes! Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean from my hand? No; this my hand will rather the multitudinous seas incarnadine, making the green one red.” “My hands are of your colour; but I shame to wear a heart so white. A little water clears us of this deed: How easy it is then! Your constancy hath left you unattended.

  William Shakespeare

  Ocean, Heart, Eye

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 2, sc. 2, l. 61

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• When you collect marine animals there are certain flat worms so delicate that they are almost impossible to capture whole, for they break and tatter under the touch. You must let them ooze and crawl of their own will onto a knife blade and then lift them gently into your bottle of sea water. And perhaps that might be the way to write this book — to open the page and let the stories crawl in by themselves.

  John Steinbeck

  Book, Writing, Marine

  "Cannery Row".

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• Just like that. Gone forever. They will not grow old together. They will never live on a beach by the sea, their hair turned white, dancing in a living room to Billie Holiday or Nat Cole. They will not enter a New York club at midnight and show the poor hip-hop fools how to dance. They will not chuckle together over the endless folly of the world, its vanities and stupid ambitions. They will not hug each other in any chilly New York dawn. Oh, Mary Lou. My baby. My love.

  Pete Hamill

  Baby, Beach, New York

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• My name is October Christine Daye; I live in a city by the sea where the fog paints the early morning, parking is more precious than gold, and Kelpies wait for the unwary on street corners. Neither of the worlds I live in is quite mine, but no one can take them away from me. I did what had to be done, and I think I may finally be starting to understand what's important. It's all about finding the way home, wherever that is. I plan on finding out. I have time.

  Mira Grant

  Morning, Home, Thinking

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