Family Quote by William Landay

“We who would seek new land must be willing to sacrifice the sight of shore for a long, long time.”

— André Gide

“We were so used to traveling we had to walk all over Long Island, but there was no more land, just the Atlantic Ocean,…

— Jack Kerouac

“It would be a hard life, but it would be theirs alone. Here at the world's edge, far from everything familiar and safe, they…

— Eowyn Ivey

“It seemed I'd always been chasing after something, anything that moved -a car, a bird, a blowing leaf -anything that might lead me into…

— Bob Dylan

“If you were the Red Sea I'd be the Waaheen Valley. We were meant not only to intersect but also to stay joined. For…

— Ismaaciil C. Ubax

“It all made me realize I wasn't the only one who wasn't sure they belonged. There was no one right way to fit in--it…

— Marissa Moss

“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

“We held on to each other and looked out at the sea. It was impossibly large and full of beauty and danger in equal…

— Paula McLain

“It is the end of a family- when they begin to sell their land. Out of the land we came and into we must…

— Pearl S. Buck

“Then, one on either side, they walked me to the shore, which was black and endless. But there was a fire waiting. And there…

— Emily M. Danforth

“That was the trouble. The land is too big out there, and after a while it starts to swallow you up. I reached a…

— Paul Auster

“See, I think there are roads that lead us to each other. But in my family, there were no roads - just underground tunnels.…

— Benjamin Alire Sáenz