Beaten Quote by Colson Whitehead

“There was the place where all the shouted words fall into the water. They’re too weak to make it from shore to shore. I…

— Antonia Michaelis

“Words are wind, and the wind that blows exiles across the narrow sea seldom blows them back.”

— George R.R. Martin

“They had lived their older lives like strangers from different shipwrecks, washed up on the same island, without the benefit of a common language.”

— Tracy Guzeman

“Words have all died in the hollow of time, piling up soundlessly at the dark bottom of a volcanic lake.”

— Haruki Murakami

“Coldest the remembrance of the wider ocean--wealth, caste, custom intervened between me and what I naturally and inevitably loved.”

— Charlotte Brontë

“Some say the ocean roars, I hear it ever weeping. Weep, ocean, weep for those gone before. Weep, O sea, for the open graves…

— Craig Froman

“Their ships were steeds, and they rode the waves like jennets.”

— Felipe Fernández-Armesto

“I try to fend off the oceanic sadness, but I can't. It's such a colossal effort not to be haunted by what's lost, but…

— Jandy Nelson

“Words, displaced and mutilated words, words of others, were the poor pittance left him by the hours and the centuries.”

— Jorge Luis Borges

“They are orphans again, with no true home but each other and whatever life they can make together on the other side of the…

— Leigh Bardugo

“The beauty of the sea is that it never shows any weakness and never tires of the countless souls that unleash their broken voices…

— Zeina Kassem

“We held on to each other and looked out at the sea. It was impossibly large and full of beauty and danger in equal…

— Paula McLain