Quote by Sabrina Jeffries

“Her metaphors for her children included barnacles encrusting a ship and limpets clinging to a rock.”

— Margaret Atwood

“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

“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

“And though she couldn’t remember the exact reference and whether it was from mythology or the Bible, she knew instinctively as they approached the…

— Amor Towles

“She tried to speak; her mouth opened, once, twice, silent, a mermaid washed ashore.”

— Gillian Flynn

“Holy mackerel, mother of baby fishes, is that a bed?”

— Elle Casey

“A ship will never sink if God is on it.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“The wretch was far too handsome for words. Why did God have to give such good looks to such abominable men? First Colonel Taylor,…

— Sabrina Jeffries

“SHE CAME TO a moment later and found the god of the sea between her legs, her skirts rucked up scandalously high once more,…

— Maggie Fenton

“Adrift and unmoored, she had tried again and again to throw him a rope to save him from the raging waters. And now he…

— Tiffany Reisz

“How the gods must have chuckled when they added Hope to the evils with which they filled Pandora's box, for they knew very well…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“One night when we were sleeping they threw my wife and myself into the sea. My wife, however, was a fairy, and so she…

— Richard Francis Burton