Aouda Fastened Quote by Jules Verne

“How had she ever thought his blue eyes placid as a lake? But there was untold power in any water: to buoy, to drown,…

— Julie Anne Long

“that's what God does. He moves the wind across the water or leaves it still. He can do all that. That's God doing that…

— George Dawson

“He let himself be storm-tossed, riding her billowing sea. When she held him like this he could see nothing, but the colour of his…

— Howard Jacobson

“To this last apothegm poor Hepzibah responded with a sigh so deep and heavy that it almost rustled Uncle Venner quite away, like a…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“he came awake like someone struggling to swim to the surface of a lake of laudanum, where the strongest delights were the deepest and…

— Philip Pullman

“Aomame closed her eyes and, in a split second, reviewed the long span of years as if standing on the edge of a sheer…

— Haruki Murakami

“Overhead, a fluff of a cloud was framed with pure golden light from the sun that was hidden from her view. Awed by the…

— Delia Parr

“It was Aomame’s firm belief that the human body was a temple, to be kept as strong and beautiful and clean as possible, whatever…

— Haruki Murakami

“Sunk in the mud, it took all my strength to flip it over. I lifted out the oar and inspected the bottom for holes…

— Sue Monk Kidd

“But of Olórin that tale does not speak; for though he loved the Elves, he walked among them unseen, or in form as one…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“It was Aomame’s firm belief that the human body was a temple, to be kept as strong and beautiful and clean as possible.”

— Haruki Murakami

“In later days he [Olórin] dearly loved the Children of Eru, and took pity on their sorrows. Those who hearkened to him arose from…

— J. R. R. Tolkien