Libya-tripoli Quote by Mabel Loomis Todd

“All uncleanness seems washed clean in its lonely stretches ; the life-giving sun and ardent air must still bring singular joy, the eager morning…

— Mabel Loomis Todd

“She gave up trying to understand herself, and the vast armies of the benighted, who follow neither the heart nor the brain, and march…

— E.M. Forster

“You, Bedouin of Libya who saved our lives, though you will dwell forever in my memory yet I shall never be able to recapture…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“as the wind howled on, and the sea leaped, and the ship groaned and dived, and yet steadfastedly shot her red hell further and…

— Herman Melville

“She could slip out of her shoes and leave them right here, stuck in the muck, and then get rid of her dress and…

— Aleksandar Hemon

“She turned back to her sandwich. And here, of all things, was desire again. (She could have put the palm of her hand to…

— Alice McDermott

“They were soldiers of the sea, born and bred to battle her, taking her bounty along the way. Some succeeded and lived, others failed…

— Amber Lynn Natusch

“Then she would wander through fields, over simple, poor land, looking carefully and keenly all round her, still getting used to being alive in…

— Andrei Platonov

“Now that she’d done her own tour she could see a little bit of the war in him, his familiarity with silences, his drive,…

— Cara Hoffman

“The sea is colder than a maiden and crueler than a whore.”

— George R.R. Martin

“He could offer her an eternity of challenges and passion, of quiet, tender moments stolen in the depths of riotous flames and ravaging storms--tranquility…

— A.G. Howard

“And let us not remember Italy the less regardfully, because, in every fragment of her fallen Temples, and every stone of her deserted palaces…

— Charles Dickens