Growing up Quote by Jamaica Kincaid

“I gazed up at the sky. I was in a tiny boat, on a vast ocean. No wind, no waves, just me floating there.…

— Haruki Murakami

“My ship came in,then it sank!”

— Brian T. Shirley

“Part of the hem floated loose. She spun around again—the fabric tightened like wool on a spindle. She breathed in fear. The boat was…

— Yvonne Korshak

“He woke early the next morning. It was still cool, but he opened the window and, leaning on the ledge, looked down at the…

— Rupert Thomson

“And isn’t silence, in its way, a good sign? That everything is well, that the ship is still steaming safely away from shore?”

— Justin Cronin

“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

“It was dark, and there was light. Flashing, burning. There was warmth, and there was ice. Melting, oozing. I was flying, but I had…

— Carian Cole

“When the plane took off with me in it, I felt strangely light—as if the strings mooring me to the life I’d made had…

— Melodie Winawer

“...for all its apparent speed, the ship was almost perfectly silent, and he experienced an enervating, eerie feeling, as though the ancient warship, mothballed…

— Iain M. Banks

“And so when               the sailors               hear the shore’s yawn And see the               lighthouse wick               upon the sea They’ll know              …

— Kenyatta Jean-Paul Garcia

“A glassy calm replaced the storm surrounding their boat. The distant thunder struck a note, white-hot and remote. An invisible magnet seemed to steer…

— J.Z. Bingham

“They sat side by side, sad and weary, like shipwrecked sailors on a deserted shore.”

— Fyodor Dostoevsky