Metaphor Quote by Natasha Pulley

“All he asked of her was basic civility and an ounce of propriety, but she was like one of her sea creatures, goaded by…

— Anonymous

“It is one thing to look at a mistreated boat and another to look at a tomb. The silence of the bay seemed more…

— John D. MacDonald

“She was a dangerous, dangerous girl. A plague. A Mountain of Adamant who tore the iron from ships, sinking them to their watery graves…

— Renee Ahdieh

“...the sea offers the only broad horizon, and the immense he saw now gave him a peculiar, an indescribable thrill. He felt suddenly elated.…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“He turned his head and gazed at me, eyes dancing and blue, remnants of a smile dancing on his face. How beautiful he looked.…

— Rose Christo

“We held on to each other and looked out at the sea. It was impossibly large and full of beauty and danger in equal…

— Paula McLain

“For an hour, till greyness covered all, the water shone like milk and mother-of-pearl. The sea breathed quietly, like a sleeping dog.”

— J.A. Baker

“I know the English are terribly sentimental about the sea, but I can live without it.”

— Libba Bray

“Warm, aquamarine eyes stared into him—providing a lifeline to shore. And he wondered if she was really the one who needed saving . . .”

— J. Rose Black

“He felt at loose ends with himself like a man in a foreign city where he didn’t know the language. He felt out of…

— William Miller

“They sat side by side, sad and weary, like shipwrecked sailors on a deserted shore.”

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“He retrieved the words from somewhere long forgotten. They floated through the foggy recesses of his mind, plucked from the dark and released into…

— R. W. Patterson