--- title: "1 Water Thought Quotes By Kirk Marshall" description: "1 Water Thought quotes by Kirk Marshall. Plus more from Kirk Marshall and more Water Thought sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/272/kirk-marshall-45867_quote_the-man-exhaled-and-wondered-he-thought_2084892.jpg" --- > [“The man exhaled and wondered. He thought about the squid, and he thought about summers divested of chill and abundant with the strange precocity of wild laughter, of warm days spent tracking footfalls in warm sands, of that electric mane…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kirk-marshall/the-man-exhaled-and-wondered-he-thought-about-the-squid-and-he/) [Kirk Marshall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kirk-marshall/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/272/kirk-marshall-45867_quote_the-man-exhaled-and-wondered-he-thought_2084892.jpg) ## More by Kirk Marshall > [“Godzilla, you see, is toppled, is depleted, is immobile and breathless, the non-conversative dictator and his polemical primeval tyranny dashed to social smithereens... for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kirk-marshall/godzilla-you-see-is-toppled-is-depleted-is-immobile-and-breathless/) [Kirk Marshall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kirk-marshall/) > [“But Shunt, he thirsted for understanding with obsessive perseverance. It was a pathology in this way, and pathologies aren't hobbies to be entertained through…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kirk-marshall/but-shunt-he-thirsted-for-understanding-with-obsessive-perseverance/) [Kirk Marshall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kirk-marshall/) > [“Most of all, I blamed the Icelander for the society and emotional remoteness and irrelevance of birds, that feathered people who seemed to reign…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kirk-marshall/most-of-all-i-blamed-the-icelander-for-the-society-and-emotional/) [Kirk Marshall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kirk-marshall/) > [“It's reasonable to try for success. Paradoxically, it's also sane to admit defeat. This excels the coming of the end. And when that tide…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kirk-marshall/it-s-reasonable-to-try-for-success-paradoxically-it-s-also-sane-to/) [Kirk Marshall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kirk-marshall/) > [“The man exhaled and wondered. He thought about the squid, and he thought about summers divested of chill and abundant with the strange precocity…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kirk-marshall/the-man-exhaled-and-wondered-he-thought-about-the-squid-and-he/) [Kirk Marshall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kirk-marshall/) > [“The best fact I know is that kindred souls collect like dew to morning thistle. So if any of this gets out of hand,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kirk-marshall/the-best-fact-i-know-is-that-kindred-souls-collect-like-dew-to/) [Kirk Marshall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kirk-marshall/) > [“He could smoke through the water as though an aquamarine submarine, he could sever the festoonery of the poolside ebb and eddy into fiery…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kirk-marshall/he-could-smoke-through-the-water-as-though-an-aquamarine-submarine-he/) [Kirk Marshall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kirk-marshall/) > [“One day, I think, we'll invent the most impressive broom an interrogating mind might ever attest to seeing. Enormous, this thing would be, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kirk-marshall/one-day-i-think-we-ll-invent-the-most-impressive-broom-an/) [Kirk Marshall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kirk-marshall/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/water-thought/kirk-marshall/#itemlist", "name": "1 Water Thought Quotes By Kirk Marshall", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“The man exhaled and wondered. He thought about the squid, and he thought about summers divested of chill and abundant with the strange precocity of wild laughter, of warm days spent tracking footfalls in warm sands, of that electric mane of hair, as black as starlight, wheeling and blowing into her eyes and his mouth as the air accelerated over the water. He thought about the dresses, as candid and diaphanous as photographs captured of butterflies in flight, packed up, boxed in, sent away. He thought about domestic sounds smote to dark corners in dim rooms as vast and terrestrial as forsaken landscape, sounds that should not ever be pursued and evicted from this hillside house, sounds that had as much utility and purpose as the wood fashioned to stabilise the house, sounds who proved the most generous tenants he could have ever invited to share the burdensome wealth of his privacy, sounds who left like friends do when they mean not to return, without word or signal or symbol, but with the cruelty of caprice and the loveless whispers of memories receding to a breakwater of ruin. He thought about how sad he had become, and how ugly, and how fast. He thought about all the mornings covertly spoiled by a ramshackle attack of tears, he thought about the immeasurable distance from his house on its hill to the first forge of shoreline by the bay, he thought about the dialogue of terns and the sordid mystery of snow, but he fell asleep thinking about summers ended and the squid, at rest in a shoebox in the bathroom.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Kirk Marshall" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kirk-marshall/the-man-exhaled-and-wondered-he-thought-about-the-squid-and-he/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/272/kirk-marshall-45867_quote_the-man-exhaled-and-wondered-he-thought_2084892.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/272/kirk-marshall-45867_quote_the-man-exhaled-and-wondered-he-thought_2084892.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/272/kirk-marshall-45867_quote_the-man-exhaled-and-wondered-he-thought_2084892.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The man exhaled and wondered. 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