Quote by William Faulkner

“The water was tripping over itself, splashing and hypnotizing, and I tried to fix my mind on a chunk of it, like each little…

— Justin Torres

“Then, the sea fell, and the dying voice made another feeble effort, and then the sea rose high, and beat its life out, and…

— Charles Dickens

“The sea stood up before him, foaming, torn by lightning bolts, opening terrifying mouths that gobbled up the dense, hard black rains unleashed by…

— Anonymous

“He splashed into the water, his whole body, not with the reverent attitude of prayer, but with a desperate thirst; he buried his head…

— Orson Scott Card

“Before he called me forth from the grave, Jesus wept. His was not the loud, frantic keening of the women who mourned outside my…

— Bodie And Brock Thoene

“Finally, the water level topped off, leaving him with no more air to breathe. He drew his last breath and slipped down deep into…

— Wyatt Michael

“he came awake like someone struggling to swim to the surface of a lake of laudanum, where the strongest delights were the deepest and…

— Philip Pullman

“HOWARD ROARK LAUGHED. He stood naked at the edge of a cliff. The lake lay far below him. A frozen explosion of granite burst…

— Ayn Rand

“One of these days lightning is going to fill the sky from the rising of the sun to its setting, and there is going…

— John Piper

“All of this while I left lifted by a strange new medium, a strange element--I now tell you that I was newly buoyant in…

— Denis Johnson

“Till morning dawned I was tossed on a buoyant but unquiet sea, where billows of trouble rolled under surges of joy.”

— Charlotte Brontë

“As soon as … their feet touched the water at its edge, the water flowing downstream stood still, rising up in a mass. Joshua 3:15–16”

— Beth Moore