That night, the sea had invaded the land.

You have to have spent the night at sea, sitting in a life raft and looking at your watch, to know that the night…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“The Sea Still Sounds (Già da più notti s’ode ancora il mare) Even more so at night the sea still sounds, Lightly, up and…

— Salvatore Quasimodo

“The beach was empty, no footprints in the sand, and yet they were all there: the dead, the night and the sea. The sea…

— Nina George

I wonder if, in the dark night of the sea, the octopus dreams of me.

— N. Scott Momaday

“She stares at him, standing with a group of people by the five-metre high chocolate fountain”

— David Wailing

“No matter how slinky your lingerie, a sticker between the brows will always kill the mood.”

— Rosen Trevithick

“Scream… please scream; it thrills me so.”

— Cornelius Harker

“While I prepared to poison my girlfriend, I sorted through the previous day’s post”

— Andrew K. Lawston

“The Troll was well over seven feet tall, and smelled of body odour and Germolene.”

— Andrew Barrett

Has a world composed of "us" and "not us" been invaded at last?

— Bisco Hatori

I was in Shanghai when the Japanese invaded China. I was there in Shanghai when, the morning after Pearl Harbor, they seized Shanghai.

— J. G. Ballard

William: What do you think of the fact that your home has been invaded by women? Maddox: I couldn’t be more pleased, as long…

— Gena Showalter

That's how we invaded Iraq, through the fear of an 'evil empire,' and it just makes people feel like bulls with the toreadors -…

— Bill Pullman

On the contrary, the characteristic element of the present situation is that economic questions have finally and irrevocably invaded the domain of public life…

— Arthur Henderson

I'd like to keep work work and life life. It means you've got your life to come back to, somewhere to come home to…

— James McAvoy