--- title: "4 Wide River Quotes by 4 authors" description: "Browse 4 Wide River quotes by 4 authors. Discover the best Wide River sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/728/james-salter-2584_behinds_we-dash-the-black-river-its-flats-smooth_1468899.jpg" --- > [WE DASH THE BLACK RIVER, ITS flats smooth as stone. Not a ship, not a dinghy, not one cry of white. The…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-salter/we-dash-the-black-river-its-flats-smooth-as-stone-not-a-ship-not-a/) [James Salter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-salter/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/728/james-salter-2584_behinds_we-dash-the-black-river-its-flats-smooth_1468899.jpg) > [“Fifteen feet away, the wide River Thames rolled past, dark and deep and mysterious is the sullen-not-quite sunrise.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/fifteen-feet-away-the-wide-river-thames-rolled-past-dark-and-deep-and/) [Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/316/anonymous-1_england_fifteen-feet-away-the-wide-river-thames_1504622.jpg) > [“I keep having this fantasy about some wide river or channel I'm on the bank of. I can look up, and on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/garth-risk-hallberg/i-keep-having-this-fantasy-about-some-wide-river-or-channel-i-m-on/) [Garth Risk Hallberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/garth-risk-hallberg/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d67/garth-risk-hallberg-7516_alternate-universe_i-keep-having-this-fantasy-about-some-wi_2165385.jpg) > [“This isn’t going to end well,” Marce said to his sister. “Does it ever?” she asked, banking toward the Warta, the wide…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-scalzi/this-isn-t-going-to-end-well-marce-said-to-his-sister-does-it-ever/) [John Scalzi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-scalzi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c7c/john-scalzi-2071_river_this-isn-t-going-to-end-well-marce-said_2183997.png) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/wide-river/#itemlist", "name": "Wide River Quotes", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "WE DASH THE BLACK RIVER, ITS flats smooth as stone. Not a ship, not a dinghy, not one cry of white. The water lies broken, cracked from the wind. This great estuary is wide, endless. The river is brackish, blue with the cold. It passes beneath us blurring. The sea birds hang above it, they wheel, disappear. We flash the wide river, a dream of the past. The deeps fall behind, the bottom is paling the surface, we rush by the shallows, boats beached for winter, desolate piers. 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