Quote by Kevin Crossley-Holland

“In the winter of wet years the streams ran full-freshet, and they swelled the river until sometimes it raged and boiled, bank full, and…

— John Steinbeck

“The stone basin was crusted with ice now. The courtyard security light illuminated its depths, and as he leaned over it he could make…

— Julie Orringer

“The river narrowed, quickened, its surface trembling like the eyes of dreamers.”

— Patricia A. McKillip

“The river is one of my favorite metaphors, the symbol of the great flow of Life Itself. The river begins at Source, and returns…

— Jeffrey R. Anderson

“And it occurred to me then how it took hours, sometimes day, for the surface of a river to freeze over-to hold in its…

— Nam Le

“The flow of the river is ceaseless; and its water is never the same. The foam that floats in the pools Now gathering, now…

— Kamo no Chōmei

“There is a legend that everything that falls into the waters of this river -- leaves, insects, the feathers of birds -- is transformed…

— Paulo Coelho

“the river still chattered on to him, a babbling procession of the best stories in the world, sent from the heart of the earth…

— Kenneth Grahame

“His picturesque and filthy loquacity flowed like a troubled stream from a poisoned source.”

— Joseph Conrad

“Going up that river was like travelling back to the earliest beginnings of the world, when vegetation rioted on the earth and the big…

— Joseph Conrad

“I am the place where two rivers meet, silted with upheaval and loss.”

— Lori Benton

“The river rises, flows over its banks and carries us all away, like mayflies floating downstream: they stare at the sun, then all at…

— Stephen Mitchell