Quote by Dorothy L. Sayers

“Waves tossed themselves against the shore, dragging grit and sand between their nails as they were slowly pulled back out to sea.”

— Holly Black

“A graveyard of boats, cloaked in the shadows of their storm-beaten sails, rest like long-forgotten tombstones on the edges of the docks.”

— Lee Kelly

“All along the ragged coastline, the sea sucked and frothed and growled, tireless legions of riderless white horses crashing up against the stubborn stone…

— Peter May

“a boat, even a wrecked and wretched boat still has all the possibilities of moving”

— Dionne Brand

“Floating gently at the bottom of the ocean, I With waving weeds, sway, asleep”

— Eesha Kumar

“Part of the hem floated loose. She spun around again—the fabric tightened like wool on a spindle. She breathed in fear. The boat was…

— Yvonne Korshak

“Like a long wave, like a roll of heavy waters, he went over me, his devastating presence—dragging me open, laying bare the pebbles on…

— Virginia Woolf

“A slippery fish, flashing scales in the water and a noble fighter on the line, but dull as lead at the bottom of the…

— Michael David Lukas

“I awoke at dawn, thrown up on a rock, the skeleton of a ship choked in its own sails.”

— Anaïs Nin

“Did some deaths go on hurting? were there winds below the sea that blew as fast as all other winds but blew through you…

— Joseph McElroy

“I ploughed the land with horses, But my heart was ill at ease, For the old seafaring men Came to me now and then,…

— Anonymous

“He stopped trying to save himself and let the breakwater draw the boat in. He knew just when to stick out the oar to…

— Shelley Noble