Body Quote by Anonymous

“She was pulling a rope out of the water and knew it was coming to the end when the barnacles started to appear and…

— Susan Minot

“I began to understand what bound Pearl to their simple mystery because i felt the same connection. in front of us, all around us,…

— Belinda Jeffrey

“She had wanted wings, and now she was drifting, held together only by the pulsing perimeters of her skin. Even the floor that dug…

— Meredith Duran

“The sound of her voice, and this acknowledgment of obligation, made him less willing to go than before, but at length he tore himself…

— Ann Radcliffe

“Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships…pinched it in to such a little bit of a thing…

— Zora Neale Hurston

She hardly ever thought of him. He had worn a place for himself in some corner of her heart, as a sea shell, always…

— Anonymous

“But she feared time itself... the dwindling of life; how year by year her share was sliced; how, little the margin that remained was…

— Virginia Woolf

But she still had that something which fires the imagination, could still stop one's breath for a moment by a look or gesture that…

— Willa Cather

“She never moved in pieces like a mosaic She moved whole like a sculpture But it was next to impossible With her limited means…

— Witter Bynner

“Now that her spirit had left, I’d thought she would feel light. Then I realized it was the spirit that carries the weight of…

— Jessica Maria Tuccelli

That stirring which had fluttered in her on first glimpsing the sea—that stirring landlocked children know so well—moved in her now, with the golden…

— Catherynne M. Valente

She loved the sea for its storms alone, cared for vegetation only when it grew here and there among ruins. She had to extract…

— Gustave Flaubert