Coastline Quote by Christina Baker Kline

“Again, there were maidens who cherished the firm belief that he had come from the sea. Because within his breast could be heard the…

— Yukio Mishima

“Its whole expanse was covered with tall, juicy grass, and when the wind blew, great waves passed over it with a sound like troubled…

— Michael Ende

“The edge of a colossal jungle, so dark-green as to be almost black, fringed with white surf, ran straight, like a ruled line, far,…

— Joseph Conrad

“THE ARRIVAL Like a tide it comes in, wave after wave of foliage and fruit, the nurtured and the wild, out of the light…

— Wendell Berry

“She floated on coral and flaxen flames. What she thought was a sea of fire was not seawater at all; it was an ocean…

— Holly Ringland

“And you can still see the sea!" She wanted to swim there, immediately- she had a childlike urge of excitement at the sight of…

— Deborah Lawrenson

“Before us, over the tree tops, we beheld a great field of open sea to the East. Sheer above us rose single pines, black…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“By the shores of Gitche Gumee, By the shining Big-Sea-Water, Stood the wigwam of Nokomis, Daughter of the Moon, Nokomis, Dark behind it rose…

— Anonymous

“She felt like a creature born to reside on the bottom of the ocean floor, dark and flat and half-blind, slowly rising through the…

— Lisa Jewell

“Float beyond the world of trees. Out into the whispering breeze, past the rushes, past the weeds, past the marsh's waving reeds.”

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“There, in the shimmering distance, was a sail. I stared in momentary disbelief, but there it was, one of the most beautiful sights the…

— Tom Neale

“The sea was a glorious shade of blue. The cliffs, edged with a narrow strip of golden sand, wound around the cove. Seabirds soared…

— Paul Moxham