Crime Quote by John D. MacDonald

“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

“I could see the bay in the distance and where the ship should have been. Instead we found a burnt mast protruding from the…

— Stacy Buck

“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

“but he was afraid of being insincere and telling lies in the presence of death. It was on a fine winter’s day, shot through…

— Albert Camus

“A graveyard of boats, cloaked in the shadows of their storm-beaten sails, rest like long-forgotten tombstones on the edges of the docks.”

— Lee Kelly

“I think I'm looking at one of the air ships the farmers tried to take down.”

— Ally Condie

“I sought the sea. There was a small comfort in it--in how it never ended, how there were other lands beyond it that I…

— Susan Fletcher

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

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“It was like looking at the ocean: some days, you could tell what mood it was in. Most days, though, it was unreadable, mysterious.”

— Rick Riordan

“She drew his eye like the shore draws the ocean. Nothing seemed as interesting, as captivating, as important as the face of that girl.”

— M Leighton

“It was such a lovely day too, and the sky and sea were so blue. They sat eating and drinking, gazing out to sea,…

— Enid Blyton