Character-description Quote by Murasaki Shikibu Download Open image ““Remember "the unmoored boat floats about.”” — Murasaki Shikibu ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Character-description
“People don't remember the thousands of earnest sailors lost out in sea. People remember the assholes with no skill in sailing navigation.” — John Seuss Copy Share Image
“Your boat's not like to sink, I don't think. Boats only sink when I'm aboard.” — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“a boat, even a wrecked and wretched boat still has all the possibilities of moving” — Dionne Brand Copy Share Image
“A graveyard of boats, cloaked in the shadows of their storm-beaten sails, rest like long-forgotten tombstones on the edges of the docks.” — Lee Kelly Copy Share Image
“Story is our only boat for sailing on the river of time, but in the great rapids and the winding shallows, no boat is… — Ann VanderMeer Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“I looked at the images hanging on the walls, wanting to find those things in her pictures. My favorite was directly across from me:… — Leesa Freeman Copy Share Image
“The boat struck the bank full tilt. The dreamer, the joyous oarsman, lay on his back at the bottom of the boat, his heels… — Kenneth Grahame Copy Share Image
There is a tendency among men as well as women ... so soon as they have acquired a little knowledge of some kind, to… — Murasaki Shikibu Copy Share Image
In a certain reign there was a lady not of the first rank whom the emperor loved more than any of the others. The… — Murasaki Shikibu Copy Share Image
I have a theory of my own about what the art of the novel is, and how it came into being....It happens because the… — Murasaki Shikibu Copy Share Image
“The world know it not; but you, Autumn, I confess it: your wind at night-fall stabs deep into my heart” — Murasaki Shikibu Copy Share Image
“Well, we never expected this!" they all say. "No one liked her. They all said she was pretentious, awkward, difficult to approach, prickly, too… — Murasaki Shikibu Copy Share Image
Stepmothers in books usually behave very spitefully towards the children entrusted to them. But he was now learning by his own experience that in… — Murasaki Shikibu Copy Share Image
Some ... have imagined that by arousing a baseless suspicion in the mind of the beloved we can revive a waning devotion. But this… — Murasaki Shikibu Copy Share Image
A night of endless dreams, inconsequent and wild, is this my life; none more worth telling than the rest. — Murasaki Shikibu Copy Share Image
“We are not told of things that happened to specific people exactly as they happened; but the beginning is when there are good things… — Murasaki Shikibu Copy Share Image
“...when you look at a photo or realistic drawing of a face, you see it as the face of another . But when you… — Scott McCloud Copy Share Image
“Standing on the deck of a San Francisco ferryboat, in a gray suit so precisely the same colour as the fog that he seems… — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
“If you're not who you want to be, at least act like who you want it be. - Bud” — Charles Frazier Copy Share Image
“Phyllida's hair was where her power resided. It was expensively set into a smooth dome, like a band shell for the presentation of that… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“A hound it was, an enormous coal-black hound, but not such a hound as mortal eyes have ever seen.” — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“Once Addie let someone in, she was impossible to forget. There was something about her that crawled inside a person and built a nice… — Kasie West Copy Share Image
“He was drinking Harriet's favourite, cold tea... not iced tea, but hot tea that had cooled. They liked him so much. They liked the… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
“I need you to get inside Wayne's head. I need someone who thinks a bit left field and in your own unpleasant way, Helen… — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
“I liked it when things went together like that. Not just timing things like the chop/ flick/ knock-stopping, but space things, too. Like all… — Adam Levin Copy Share Image
“He was a compact, clearcut man, with precise features, a lot of very soft black hair, and thoughtful dark brown eyes. He had a… — A.S. Byatt Copy Share Image
“They were handy to have around, Nate's little gang. They were that wonderful combination of talented and noble. The former was useful, while the… — Keith R.A. DeCandido Copy Share Image
“People don't tend to employ me. I'm the wrong personality type. Or rather, people do tend to employ me for a short time and… — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
