People Quote by Polly Johnson

“I rest my head on his shoulder and we watch the near-dark ocean together. We watch the way the water pulls back and turns…

— Nicola Yoon

“He places his hands over mine, the feeling so warm and familiar. 'Those days back there, in the house. That is my world. That…

— Carrie Ryan

“He smells like the ocean on a wild, storm-tossed day. Like moonlight on the open water. Like rain falling through leaves.”

— Tracy Wolff

“Those days back there, in the house. That is my world. That is my truth," he says. "That is my ocean.”

— Carrie Ryan

“He pauses for only a fraction of a second. Then he leans forward and presses his lips to mine, and the whole world powers…

— Lauren Oliver

“I am he that walks with the tender and growing night, I call to the earth and sea half-held by the night.”

— Walt Whitman

“But I can’t stop thinking about the ocean. It got in my head. The roar it makes—both peaceful and angry. The way its mood…

— Tarryn Fisher

“For a moment I want to believe him. For a moment I want to sit on the floor and cry out the ocean lodged…

— Tahereh Mafi

“But he’s the most familiar thing in this house, and I fall asleep better, listening to Baz breathe, than I have since winter break…

— Rainbow Rowell

“Days turn to night. The ocean tide drifts in and out. And I want you, Tara. Damn you, but I do. I always have.”

— Jill Shalvis

“He smells like night-blooming flowers Crushed, juicy petals on the pillows His voice is full of ocean Humming like the surf He kneels before…

— Francesca Lia Block

“At first he didn't know where he was, whose voice it was. He must have been asleep. And waking suddenly, like that, you woke…

— Rupert Thomson