Beach Quote by Ann Wright

“William James wrote, “We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep.”

— Wallace J. Nichols

“The ocean was the best place. That was what she loved most. It was a feeling of freedom like no other, a feeling of…

— Ann Brashares

The ocean was one of the greatest things he had ever seen in his life—bigger and deeper than anything he had imagined. It changed…

— Haruki Murakami

“We were so used to traveling we had to walk all over Long Island, but there was no more land, just the Atlantic Ocean,…

— Jack Kerouac

“For a moment, he was still that man, a boy, in that country, in that harbor, with his back to the years that had…

— Paul Yoon

“The ocean was my addiction, the place I loved most.”

— Kerry Lonsdale

“As he had once said to someone in England, though he did not care to remember whom, he had liked the sight of the…

— Mary Balogh

“peripatetic, globe-roaming mariner Captain James”

— Tim Egan

“As time went by, I realized that the particular place I'd chose was less important than the fact that I'd chosen a place and…

— Richard Nelson

“Nights and days came and passed And summer and winter and the rain. And it was good to be a little Island. A part…

— Margaret Wise Brown

He looked very old. He looked, James thought, getting his head now against the Lighthouse, now against the waste of waters running away into…

— Virginia Woolf

“James had taken his own life, but the need to do so was not something easily explained. He had the life he wanted: money,…

— Hazel Butler