Casts Quote by Louisa May Alcott

It's remarkable how quickly a good and favorable wind can sweep away the maddening frustrations of shore living.

— Ernest K. Gann

“Huge waves, a mile from crest to crest, roared down upon the pygmies that were to be their prey; sometimes the entire surface of…

— Nicholas Monsarrat

“Like dark hills of water that mounted higher and higher as they neared the shore, their crests and flanks streaked with livid bars of…

— M.M. Kaye

It was what accidental deaths did to people, made everybody's sea floor irregular and uneven, causing tidal currents to collide, surge upward, thereby resulting…

— Marisha Pessl

“The children ran ahead. A white trail of sand cut through the scrub pine and the yellowing beach grass, rising across the dunes and…

— Alice McDermott

When you hit the Midwest... it's just some passion - I don't know if it's in the water or what it is - but…

— Ivan Moody

“The ship drew on and had safely passed the strait, which some volcanic shock has made between the Calasareigne and Jaros islands; had doubled…

— Alexandre Dumas

“Hundreds of hopeless waves rushed constantly shorewards, falling exhausted upon a beach of great loose stones, that seemed to stretch miles and miles in…

— George MacDonald

These struggling tides of life that seem In wayward, aimless course to tend, Are eddies of the mighty stream That rolls to its appointed…

— William C. Bryant

“Storms bring the detritus of other people's lives into our own, a reminder that we are not alone, and of how truly insignificant we…

— Karen White

“Battered by shifing currents and a cold, unrelenting wind, we sailed past deserted islands crowded with pines and a ghost tree growing staight out…

— Marisha Pessl

But I remember seeing a mess of leaves suddenly go skittering in the wind and into the creek, then floating rapidly down the creek…

— Jack Kerouac