Columns Quote by Lucy Christopher

The sun was bobbing on the horizon, just peeking over. Its light shimmered on the sand behind you, making your body look like it…

— Lucy Christopher

The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

— Anonymous

“The color of the sky was like a length of white chalk turned on its side and rubbed into asphalt. Sanded--that was how the…

— David Guterson

“A bright light at the end of a tunnel can seem warm and inviting, or it can seem mysterious and terrifying. People of the…

— Mary Roach

“From east to west, in fact, her gaze swept slowly, without encountering a single obstacle, along a perfect curve. Beneath her, the blue-and-white terraces…

— Albert Camus

The sand looked so beautiful then, so many little individual grains in the light of the night, giving the watcher the childhood feeling of…

— Ayi Kwei Armah

Day was breaking at Plashwater Weir Mill Lock. Stars were yet visible, but there was dull light in the east that was not the…

— Charles Dickens

And perhaps beyond those shrouded swells another man did walk with another child on the dead gray sands. Slept but a sea apart on…

— Cormac McCarthy

There was the same dazzling red glare. The sea gasped for air with each shallow, stifled wave that broke on the sand. ...with every…

— Albert Camus

The grave itself is but a covered bridge, Leading from light to light, through a brief darkness!

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

And they three passed over the white sands, between the rocks, silent as the shadows.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The grass he walked through was new and a sweet smell clung to his clothes. There was blue dye on his hands from the…

— Alice Hoffman