Containers Quote by Elisabeth Naughton

“I looked at the images hanging on the walls, wanting to find those things in her pictures. My favorite was directly across from me:…

— Leesa Freeman

“Mother was comfort. Mother was home. A girl who lost her mother was suddenly a tiny boat on an angry ocean. Some boats eventually…

— Ruta Sepetys

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

— Felipe Fernández-Armesto

“... and Hannah's bed was a wide, white barge, her eiderdown a sail that steered them through the foreign morning.”

— Anouk Markovits

“She tasted like flowers and chocolate and gentle waves upon the shore.”

— Catherine Bybee

“as we watched seaward-moving ships pass between the cliffs of burning skyline, she said: 'years from now, years and years, one of those ships…

— Truman Capote

“She was at sea. She knew the rocking of the boat as intimately now as if she’d never known anything else, felt the muted…

— T.C. Boyle

“And the sea moved her back down the shore.”

— Ray Bradbury

“When I looked at them, they made up a sea.”

— Jamaica Kincaid

“It kills me to think I didn't spot her headed for the rocks. Friends are supposed to act like harbor boats-let you know if…

— Rebecca Wells

“Body found floating by the docks...”

— Joe Abercrombie

“She was ocean waves crashing against the shore, powerful, and fluid.”

— Tiffany Roberts