People left a lot of things behind when they went in the water. Their clothes, their stuff, their makeup, their fixed-up hair, their voices, their hearing, their sight–at least as the normally experienced them.
For whatever we lose (like a you or a me), It's always our self we find in the sea.
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E.e. Cummings
The ocean was the best place, of course. That was what she loved most. It was a feeling of freedom like no other, and yet a feeling of communion with all the other places and creatures the water touched.
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Ann Brashares
The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.
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Joseph Conrad
You are water I’m waterwe’re all water in different containersthat’s why it’s so easy to meetsomeday we’ll evaporate together.
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Yoko Ono
There is no water in oxygen, no water in hydrogen: it comes bubbling fresh from the imagination of the living God, rushing from under the great white throne of the glacier. The very thought of it makes one gasp with an elemental joy no metaphysician...
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George MacDonald
More Quotes By Ann Brashares
Parents were the only ones obligated to love you from the rest of the world you had to earn it.
When you feel someone else's pain and joy as powerfully as if it were your own, then you know you really loved them.
Love who you love while you have them. That's all you can do. Let them go when you must. If you know how to love, you'll never run out.
Let me love you, but don't love me back. Do love me and let me hate you for a while. Let me feel like I have some control, because I know I never do.
Love demands everything, they say, but my love demands only this: that no matter what happens or how long it takes, you`ll keep faith in me, you`ll remember who we are, and you`ll never feel despair.
