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“Barbara, you have done it again! Sweet Salt Air is a fabulous story of friendship, betrayal, courage and love with family and friends. Having…

— Barbara Delinsky

“If Walt Marlow opened the window, he would be able to hear the breakers crashing along the Pacific Northwest coast and breathe in the…

— Bobbi Ann Johnson Holmes

I think that going to the beach as a child, being in the water and smelling that salt air and hearing the seagulls, it…

— Brian Skerry

“The seamen had whitewashed the smoky ceilings of the ward, and that dear homely smell carried the vividness of thatch and lumpy walls and…

— Peter Carey

“In the end, it is all we are, these limpid tide pools of self-consciousness between crashing waves of pain. We are destined and designed…

— Dan Simmons

“Grietje showed me a photograph of the “Beach Room” at the Happy Days Nursing Home. (A name like that always makes me a bit…

— Hendrik Groen

“form, not the crashing waves far below at the base of the cliff. She looked eerily like the sketch that Kenneth had drawn of”

— Mary Jo Putney

“We are created precisely for this type of suffering. In the end, it is all we are, these limpid tide pools of self-consciousness between…

— Dan Simmons

“There is a calming aura at the ocean’s edge, despite the frothing foam, crashing waves and roaring white noise. The ocean looks the same…

— Susan Meissner

I thought Big Sur would be a great break after the tour. You'd walk down this rickety ladder to this not-very-pretty beach scene; crashing…

— Trent Reznor

“Put the ballast of biblical truth in the belly of our little boats, lest the crashing waves of calamity of these changing times cause…

— John Piper

When I left the theater… I was thinking that I’d seen a classic of American dance. It confers a mythic dimension on ordinary aspects…

— Arlene Croce