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“But it had grown into something else, something that thrilled me even as it frightened me, made me feel that I had finally cracked…

— Jon Fasman

“I have often plotted my great escape to the beach. To live seaside and to be able to stare possibility and tranquility in the…

— Erica Goros

“I had often marked the contrast between their almost ludicrous gaiety and my lonely existence, sometimes with scorn, sometimes with a feeling of deprivation.…

— Hermann Hesse

“I was an intruder, at best a visitor, and would be even in my home, in my misremembered history, until the glow of phosphorescence…

— Kevin Powers

“There is an enduring freshness in what remains strange and obscure which the cliches of greatness can only evoke nostalgia for.”

— Bauvard

“I had felt my life to be of a dull dead-level mediocrity, with the sense of real and vital things going on round the…

— Marion Milner

“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

“I like how you are. So you have quirks. All the most interesting people do.”

— Thea de Salle

“by the essence of their nature, which was frail, all human beings were probably doomed to be seasick.”

— Eudora Welty

“To know that seeing the fish beneath the surface of the water was enough. That it was everything. It was my life-- like all…

— Cheryl Strayed

“It was a strange business and it made a sad and curious impression on me; everything that had belonged to me in these earlier…

— Hermann Hesse

“There is something in the clear blue warm sea of the tropics, which gives to the stranger a feeling of unreality.”

— Anonymous