Learning Quote by Tash Aw

“In front of him, nothing. He had a sudden glimpse of what he had considered invisible. The end of the world.”

— Alessandro Baricco

“And when the sea swallowed up the shore and the waves heaved under the ship and the blue horizon encircled us, I immediately felt…

— Tayeb Salih

“I gazed up at the sky. I was in a tiny boat, on a vast ocean. No wind, no waves, just me floating there.…

— Haruki Murakami

“I remember...watching that separation of sea and sky...and for the first time I realize that none of us are seeing the same thing. That…

— Huntley Fitzpatrick

“The ocean rose up around me, hiding that low, dark patch from my eyes. The daylight, the trailing glory of the sun, went streaming…

— H.G. Wells

“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

“Finally he hears something: he thinks it is the ebb and flow of the sea, the water crashing back into the abyss of salt.”

— Marguerite Duras

“ I saw us from above, from the sky, two flecks of being connected at the edge of the wide, pale ocean, lost to…

— Cristina Henriquez

“And there he was, dead. He had finally succumbed to the exhaustion, no longer could he tread the waters of the sea inside him,…

— Cody Edward Lee Miller

“...for now he was in one of those crises when the soul yields a blurred glimpse of all that it enfolds, like an ocean,…

— Gustave Flaubert

“I took them all away, and if ever there was a time I needed distraction, this was it. In complete desolation, I looked at…

— Markus Zusak

“I sought the sea. There was a small comfort in it--in how it never ended, how there were other lands beyond it that I…

— Susan Fletcher