Children Quote by Margaret Atwood

“So they clutched at her like shipwrecked sailors, clinging to the rocks despite the fact that they are being battered to death against them.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

“If life were a sea adventure, I knew: I wouldn't be sailor, pirate, or cabin boy but more likely a barnacle clinging to the…

— Sara Levine

“We’re all just side effects, right?” “‘Barnacles on the container ship of consciousness,”

— John Green

“The sea waves stirred before me they dashed against the rocks Like a mermaid rising from its depths curled white sea foam were her…

— Giselle V. Steele

“Ocean waves gently rock the boat, As if to the tune of a lullaby. She sits still as the boat silently floats Under the…

— Rachel Lewis

“No, this mother purled about her duties like a bubbling brook, and any number of stones hurled at her eddies sank with a harmless…

— Lionel Shriver

“Mother was comfort. Mother was home. A girl who lost her mother was suddenly a tiny boat on an angry ocean. Some boats eventually…

— Ruta Sepetys

“For me, the sea was a great comfort, Pilar. But it made my children restless. It exists now so we can call and wave…

— Cristina García

“She was ocean waves crashing against the shore, powerful, and fluid.”

— Tiffany Roberts

“She gave herself up to the waves of the storm. If they drowned, it would be together, a shattered vessel on the sea, a…

— Erin Kellison

“I awoke at dawn, thrown up on a rock, the skeleton of a ship choked in its own sails.”

— Anaïs Nin

“It was as though she has found refuge inside a shell and the only sound she could hear was the sea of an inimical…

— Milan Kundera