Blue Quote by Alistair Cooke

“The green sea swept into the shallows and seethed there like slaking quicklime. It surged over the rocks, tossing up spangles of water like…

— Colin Thiele

The waves broke and spread their waters swiftly over the shore. One after another they massed themselves and fell; the spray tossed itself back…

— Virginia Woolf

“He sent it flying at full speed. It jumped six times as well, sending ripples across the sea. The small splashes of foam turned…

— Erica Sehyun Song

“Just before it was dark, as they passed a great island of Sargasso weed that heaved and swung in the light sea as though…

— Ernest Hemingway

And one rose in a tent of sea and gave A darkening shudder; water fell away; The whale stood shining, and then sank in…

— Yvor Winters

Katsa watched the long grass moving around them. The wind pushed it, attacked it, struck it in one place and then another. It rose…

— Kristin Cashore

I led by three or four feet, with Biggy (John Biglow) surging closer on each stroke. I hated him in those last few seconds;…

— Brad Alan Lewis

A bird with a broken wing was beating the air above, reeling, fluttering, circling disabled, down, down to the water

— Kate Chopin

I went about the job in a direct way. I took the hatchet in both my hands and vigorously beat the fish on the…

— Yann Martel

Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

— Andre Gide

“This was the southern sea. The colors that fade when coral is drawn out of its element were garishly bright here, intricate and lovely…

— Henry Kuttner

“The sky was packed which by appearing endless seems inevitable. The flag droops straight down. The horse in dry sand walks with a chirping…

— Lyn Hejinian