Contemporary Quote by Amy McNamara

“I have been here before, But when or how I cannot tell: I know the grass beyond the door, The sweet keen smell, The…

— Dante Gabriel Rossetti

“There was a large crowd around us, and every face in it looked happy. We had little opportunity to talk until we reached the…

— Sōseki Natsume

“Up near the top, the view pierces me so totally I have one of those flash thoughts about tossing myself into the ocean. Surrender…

— Amy McNamara

“I want to hear the wind in the trees. Feel the sun warm my back. I want to see birds fly in a sky…

— Lea Doué

“I woke up early and took the first train to take me away from the city. The noise and all its people. I was…

— Charlotte Eriksson

“But I can’t stop thinking about the ocean. It got in my head. The roar it makes—both peaceful and angry. The way its mood…

— Tarryn Fisher

“The world is full of painful stories. Sometimes it seems as though there aren't any other kind and yet I found myself thinking how…

— Octavia E. Butler

“Outside, the dogs whine over the wind. They sense the wolves - they sense the wild. It calls to them, like it calls to…

— Summer Lane

“I stand quietly on the beach. My silence shields me from faraway waves that smell of sunken ships. My silence shelters me from distant…

— Anonymous

“Come here till I tell you. Where is the sea high and the winds soft and moist and warm, sometimes stained with sun, with…

— J.P. Donleavy

“...when you sit in a forest everything appears still. But it isn't really. If you listen and watch closely, life is happening everywhere around…

— Katherine Holubitsky

“The wind shakes the leaves and I have a sudden urge to go outside. The gray world out there looks inviting, velvety and cool.”

— Laura Nowlin