The world beyond the water was a blue of green and stone and blue. A moment later Yoshi pushed through, the water pouring down in sheets so smooth it looked like glass, and stepped into the calm [p. 296]
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 Kim Edwards
She had died at age twelve, and by now she was nothing but the memory of love-- nothing, now, but bones.
You can't stop time. You can't capture light. You can only turn your face up and let it rain down.
Rows and rows of books lined the shelves and I let my eyes linger on the sturdy spines, thinking how human books were, so full of ideas and images, worlds imagined, worlds perceived; full of fingerprints and sudden laughter and the sighs of readers, too....
Some dreams matter, illuminate a crucial choice or reveal some intuition that's trying to push its way to the surface. Other, though, are detritus, the residue of the day reassembling itself in some disjointed and chaotic way .. Frantic dreams, they left me tired, and...
... the Iroquois take dreams very seriously. They see them as the secret wishes of the soul--the heart's desire, so to speak. Not all dreams, maybe, but the important ones. [p.254]
