Quote by Richard Matheson

“To him who begs for a drop, You grant the seas.”

— Umera Ahmed

“...he returned to his barricaded silence, locking me out of his world. The unfathomable, inscrutable East, I thought. I was cut adrift from the…

— Tash Aw

“...he seemed to grasp a deep understanding of the unfolding drama in which he had been caught. He seemed to understand something that few…

— Gene Edwards

“As he had once said to someone in England, though he did not care to remember whom, he had liked the sight of the…

— Mary Balogh

“As he stared into the ocean, he must have tossed a lifetime of apologies into its silence. Maybe he thought the tide would wash…

— Diane Keaton

“I had always thought of the sea as a boundary keeping me in my place on land. Now, though, it became an opening.”

— Tracy Chevalier

“I have crossed over, and that childhood is as far away and strange as something that happened to someone else in a land beyond…

— Kermit Roosevelt III

“The sand was hard-packed and solid and wet, speckled all over with cockle shells in colors and patterns of such profusion and variety that…

— Neal Stephenson

“He felt more soft raindrops, saw bright-red oil against the brown mud, heard his mother calling again, but it was unclear what she was…

— Richard Flanagan

“For a moment, he was still that man, a boy, in that country, in that harbor, with his back to the years that had…

— Paul Yoon

“He’d never liked the ocean, the sense of the unknown beneath his feet, that something hungry and full of teeth might be waiting to…

— Leigh Bardugo

“If everybody would leave him alone for just a little while, he thought, he wouldn't cause anybody any more trouble. He would turn to…

— Kurt Vonnegut