Poetic-fiction Quote by Lauren DeStefano

“And so castles made of sand slips into the sea, eventually.”

— Jimi Hendrix

“Sand And she frequently forgot, That her body (all our bodies) is a house of sand. That it had shattered and is shattering still.…

— Han Kang

“...but I want to spend the whole trip out here, with the ocean replenishing her treasures like an old shopkeeper as I sleep alongside…

— Sarah Ockler

“She saw the deepness that was at the edge of France and it made the beach under her feel like a ledge on a…

— J.M. Ledgard

“Sand castles just aren't made to last.”

— Alice Yi-Li Yeh

“And you can still see the sea!" She wanted to swim there, immediately- she had a childlike urge of excitement at the sight of…

— Deborah Lawrenson

“It's not worth it to build castles on the sand if they get destroyed by the waves of reality.”

— Mladen Đorđević

“Her brain, which had up until then still been in the shower, toweled off and joined her on the beach. It whispered a tiny…

— Adrienne Kress

“She ought to go down to the beach. It was Thursday, early closing, and it seemed ungrateful to live so close to the sea…

— Penelope Fitzgerald

“Sophie, displaced to the chair next to Lulu, dug her in the side. "Keep him," she whispered. "Nail his foot to the floor if…

— Gabrielle Donnelly

“She felt like a speck of sand in an alien land, confused as to how it had gotten there.”

— Hugh Howey

“She wanted to climb out of her life as if it were a seashell she could abandon on the shore and walk away from,…

— Laini Taylor