Quote by John Scalzi

“I thought nothing. The surface of my mind was perfectly still. But under the surface there was a shifting and a stirring. I felt…

— Diane Setterfield

“Standing still, I watched the world heave and swirl around me in the air. The sandy earth of the beach was making itself visible…

— Susan L. Marshall

“We looked at each other for a minute, not saying anything, but I could feel the air between us shift. It became thick, sultry,…

— Colleen Houck

“I wondered how I could appear so whole and serene on the outside when inside I was thrashing with turbulence.”

— Kerri Maniscalco

“And that’s when it hit me. Like a building had fallen on me. The oxygen in my chest swirled into a vortex created by…

— Dennis Lehane

“...that strange turbulence that rises when you begin to wash up on the island of your own little self and you don't see how…

— Sue Monk Kidd

“Wind hissed through the leaves overhead, and for a moment it was like being underwater–the late afternoon light shining coral red through a canopy…

— Laird Barron

“There was a shield in place- a shield of sea glass and coral and the undulating sea. I became the sea, became the whisper…

— Sarah J. Maas

“Oh, Coral, Coral,” he murmured, his one almost reproachful, but still he did not make any attempt to cross the space between them. Unspoken…

— Hannah Fielding

“He turned over towards the light and lay gazing into the glass paperweight. The inexhaustibly interesting thing was not the fragment of coral but…

— George Orwell

“The ocean pulsed outside our window. The sound of the waves crashing on the rocks below usually calmed me down, but the fear and…

— Chelsie Shakespeare

“I think of the feel of water. The way it is when you wade into the ocean and a small wave cascades against you,…

— Jessica Park