Admiral Quote by Susanna Clarke

“He let himself be storm-tossed, riding her billowing sea. When she held him like this he could see nothing, but the colour of his…

— Howard Jacobson

“When the rain came it came first as the scent of rain, the grey air stained darker behind the hills. Then when it came…

— Kirsty Gunn

“They came there regularly every evening drawn by some need. It was as if the water floated off and set sailing thoughts which had…

— Virginia Woolf

“Even the sea had lost its deep blue colour and, beneath the misty sky, took on the sheen of silver or iron, making it…

— Albert Camus

“They loved the sea. They taught themselves to sail, to navigate and read the weather. Without their mother's knowledge and long before she thought…

— James Carlos Blake

“She had been lying there, facedown in the water long before the tide had turned at 3.04 that morning. Her eyes were staring into…

— A.J. Waines

“The large strings hummed like rain, The small strings whispered like a secret, Hummed, whispered—and then were intermingled Like a pouring of large and…

— Eiji Yoshikawa

The clouds were building up now for the trade wind and he looked ahead and saw a flight of wild ducks etching themselves against…

— Ernest Hemingway

A blight had fallen on the trees and shrubs; and the wind, at length beginning to break the unnatural stillness that had prevailed all…

— Charles Dickens

“To his left the blue of sky and water. The view took his breath away. The sea. How it sparkled. “Hello, sea,” whispered Jean…

— Nina George

“But that miracle would eventually arrive, as it always had, and the landscape would turn from brown to green within hours under the kiss…

— Alexander McCall Smith

And from that hour his poor maimed spirit, only remembering the place where it had broken its wings, cancelled the dream through which it…

— Charles Dickens