Battles Quote by Yvonne Korshak

“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

“She was at sea. She knew the rocking of the boat as intimately now as if she’d never known anything else, felt the muted…

— T.C. Boyle

“Mother was comfort. Mother was home. A girl who lost her mother was suddenly a tiny boat on an angry ocean. Some boats eventually…

— Ruta Sepetys

“I went back to my cabin and lay down on my berth. Everything trembled as if it had a spring at its very center.…

— Jamaica Kincaid

“Her breathing was shallow, a seashore slowly being covered with water.”

— David Levithan

“And the sea moved her back down the shore.”

— Ray Bradbury

“I was left on the shore with the waves washing over me, unable to drown.”

— John Green

“Her hands clung to my neck; they would not have held me so fast in a shipwreck. And I did not understand whether she…

— Raymond Radiguet

“Over the waves, with the wind behind her and foam at her neck, she flew like a bird until her curved prow had covered…

— Seamus Heaney

“I watched as she stretched over the board to flick off a fallen leaf. Underneath her thin cotton shell, I saw how fragile the…

— Connie May Fowler

“She didn't usually mind being just a bit in over her head. She generally flailed like a becalmed ship, irritable and purposeless and panicked,…

— Julie Anne Long

“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