In my dream I drank fully of water, but when I woke, I was…

“Still immersed in his dream, he drank down the tepid tea. It tasted bitter. Glory, as anyone knows, is bitter stuff.”

— Yukio Mishima

“The water woke with a tactile vibration just the way Luce's own skin had once woken under the touch of a boy whom she…

— Sarah Porter

“I had a dream where I drank my own grandma. What she was doing disguised as a bottle of booze isn’t entirely clear to…

— Jarod Kintz

“Storms without rain. Winds without water. She woke, and when she sat up, the dust fountained off her and the voice that accompanied her…

— Will Ferguson

My trips to Blackpool have created a lifelong love of the seaside.

— A. J. Odudu

“Each year, we rent a house at the edge of the sea and drive there in the first of the summer—with the dog and…

— John Cheever

When I was a kid, all our seaside holidays were spent on Canvey Island or in Clacton-on-Sea.

— Harry Redknapp

I can imagine moving out to the seaside at some point. I like Brighton, my sister lives there. I'm a seaside boy and whenever…

— Marc Almond

“…I notice that people always make gigantic arrangements for bathing when they are going anywhere near the water, but that they don’t bathe much…

— Jerome K. Jerome

“How many ghosts might return to the promenade, haunted by the echoes of those promises, perhaps eager to catch a glimpse of what could…

— A.J. Reid

What's best about those seaside towns is that they are like time warps, and that's why people go there.

— Harland Miller

Whitley Bay was my first experience of the seaside. I'd buy my bucket and spade, and beach ball, and all the shops were teeming…

— Cherie Lunghi

I've always loved the seaside and I used to be a fairly keen surfer, but it's a solitary activity so when my husband and…

— Alice Roberts

Girls at the seaside: Too young to handle, too old to hold.

— Robert D Dangoor

I love the sea, but I avoid any sort of seaside resort that has skyscrapers or seaside entertainments.

— Quentin Blake