Dirt Quote by Esmeralda Santiago

“And then we were all lifted and hurled away from there, down back the way we had come, around a bend, into a darkway…

— Harlan Ellison

“The speaker, and the schoolmaster, and the third grown person present, all backed a little, and swept with their eyes the inclined plane of…

— Charles Dickens

“I knew that meant we were done and that we'd smooth over the surface I'd just tossed a rock into, but even the waves…

— Jessi Kirby

“As he crossed Grattan Bridge he looked down the river towards the lower quays and pitied the poor stunted houses. They seemed to him…

— James Joyce

“How we are all mere specks in time, perched on the shore, watching each other pass in turn.”

— Beatriz Williams

“The wavelets flung themselves up as if trying to pat my feet and I darted back, laughing, and picked up my skirts to chase…

— Amanda DeWees

“I thought I heard an axe chop in the woods It broke the dream; and woke up dreaming on a train. It must have…

— Gary Snyder

“Someone had cleared that hillside once to make an orchard that had fallen into ruin and was now only twisted silver branches and split…

— Louise Erdrich

“And this is how it stiffens, my vision of that seaside childhood. My father died, we moved inland. Whereon those nine first years of…

— Sylvia Plath

“Please could I say one word?" was the question three times repeated before a rough head bobbed out from the grotto of books in…

— Louisa May Alcott

“Call me Mac," he said. Mackadocious is more like it. "For the next month, I will be your writing instructor..." Lip Macking Good. "It…

— Megan McCafferty

“At dawn, I sail far from every shore to drain my cup in the sea, barring a bead I keep, tucked close like wings.…

— Saif Sidari