General Quote by John Hersey

“Nothing else attacked the submarine that day, or the days that followed, but every sound was heard as the battle cry of a beast,…

— Dean F. Wilson

“The next day, a dead turtle was left on my doorstep as a warning. I couldn’t figure out as a warning for what, and…

— John Swartzwelder

“My first recollection of that day was that early on the morning of September 17, we were all in the cellar with the mattresses…

— Carol Reardon

“As night fell, Yamamoto, aboard the huge battleship Yamato, steamed eastward at full speed into the night. Far ahead the destroyers went to flank…

— Dale A. Jenkins

“The ship started a school of fliers that skipped along the wave tops like shining silver coins. "These are the ghosts of treasures ost…

— John Steinbeck

And the storm went on. It roared, it bellowed, and it screeched: it thumped and it kerwhalloped. The great seas would come bunt agin…

— Laura E. Richards

“He slept and in his sleep he saw his friends again and they were coming downriver on muddy floodwaters, Hoghead and the City Mouse…

— Cormac McCarthy

“What happened next? I retain nothing from those terrible minutes except indistinct memories which flash into my mind with sudden brutality, like apparitions, among…

— Guy Sajer

It was like the eve of a battle; the hearts beat, the eyes laughed, and they felft that the life they were perhaps going…

— Alexandre Dumas

“Then, for more than ten days, they did not see the sun again. The ground became soft and damp, like volcanic ash, and the…

— Gabriel García Márquez

“as the wind howled on, and the sea leaped, and the ship groaned and dived, and yet steadfastedly shot her red hell further and…

— Herman Melville

“After a while, they start landing some relief in helicopters, and I guess the napalm bomb have frightened away the gooks. They must of…

— Winston Groom