Quote by Jack L. Chalker

“and everything generally made shipshape, which seemed a desirable state of affairs, given that we were in fact aboard a ship.”

— Diana Gabaldon

“It's a ship. Or it was. Boats are small and size fucking matters.”

— Shay Savage Surviving Raine

“A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not why ships were built.”

— Charlotte Revenge

“The lights of the town and of the harbour and of the boats seemed like a phantom net floating there to mark something that…

— Virginia Woolf

“She is the swelling sail, trim rigging and bust sunlit deck of our matrimonial yacht. I am the low hull, with the invisible ballast…

— Alasdair Gray

“I went back to my cabin and lay down on my berth. Everything trembled as if it had a spring at its very center.…

— Jamaica Kincaid

“Though the harbor is safe, ships were made to sail the sea. The same can be said for you and me.”

— Julie-Anne

“How many people, on that voyage, load up the boat till it is ever in danger of swamping with a store of foolish things…

— Jerome K. Jerome

“Listen, Miss, boats are supposed to float. Even if they break up, they usually still float and show up on a shore somewhere. There…

— Cathy Ostlere

“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

“The ship was small, his cabin smaller, but the captain would not allow him abovedecks.”

— George R.R. Martin

“nonsense? Yet as it collapsed, it did not take the calm or sense of mastery with it; they remained. They had built a boat,…

— Greg Bear