Book quotes Quote by Holly Ducarte

“There was such a rush about me: wing, and tangled spray, and colors upon colors and shades of colors that were not colors at…

— Theodore Sturgeon

“And my father went back into the forest and chopped down a tree. The sound of the trunk fracturing and splintering and falling to…

— Sarah Winman

“As it was, nothing happened except the two of us watching the sea come in and go out again, listening to the birds, sheltering…

— Meg Rosoff

“There rolls the deep where grew the tree O earth, what changes hast thou seen! There where the long street roars hath been. The…

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

“An ending and a beginning now knotted up forever. He expected the hues of the world to change to reflect that, but the earth…

— Sarah Pinborough

“Soon the maroon-throated howls would echo back from the other trees, father down the beach, until the whole jungle filled with roaring trees. As…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“Standing at the edge of the dark forest, he kissed me. The forest shook, trembled. Where snow touched the trees, white flecks rose into…

— David James

“He felt more soft raindrops, saw bright-red oil against the brown mud, heard his mother calling again, but it was unclear what she was…

— Richard Flanagan

“I could faintly smell the ocean. I imagined being one of the old oak trees standing there swaying in the wind and braving all…

— Nancy B. Brewer

“The generations rose and fell like so many waves upon the beach, and he stood alone, a rocky, unmovable sentinel, letting the waves of…

— Colleen Houck

“The world is full of painful stories. Sometimes it seems as though there aren't any other kind and yet I found myself thinking how…

— Octavia E. Butler

“The sun rode low in the sky, the storm clouds long gone. The ocean was calm today, not a white cap to be found.…

— Denise Hunter