Then very faintly, he heard above his head the low familiar murmur of the sea outside. At once the comfortable noise made him cheerful, and he even remembered what they were supposed to be.
Time is more complex near the sea than in any other place, for in addition to the circling of the sun and the turning of the seasons, the waves beat out the passage of time on the rocks and the tides rise and fall as...
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John Steinbeck
There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.
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Victor Hugo
And slowly, infinitely slowly, he began to trust. Not the sea, from from it; no one should make that mistake!
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Nina George
In a sea of trouble your thoughts are your lifeboat.
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Bryant McGill
When I got up this morning the sea was full of sun pennies - and now it all seems to be covered in lemon scrim. Writers ought to live far inland or next to the city dump, if they are ever to get any work...
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Mary Ann Shaffer
More Quotes By Susan Cooper
The hope is always here, always alive, but only your fierce caring can fan it into a fire to warm the world.
It is a burden..( M)ake no mistake about that. Any great gift or power or talent is a burden and this more than any, and you will long to be free of it. But there is nothing to be done. If you were born with...
The future can not blame the present, just as the present cannot blame the past.
And at the last all shall be safe, and evil thrust out never to return. And so that the trust be kept, he said, I give it into your charge, and your sons', and your sons' sons, until the day come.
All life is theatre, ' he said. 'We are all actors, you and I, in a play which nobody wrote and which nobody will see. We have no audience but ourselves....
