Related
Now she realized that she was not peering at a so-dark-blue-it-looked-black ocean, but rather she wa...
FUYUMI ONO I saw also that there was an ocean of darkness and death, but an infinite ocean of light and love, w...
GEORGE FOX![]()
Ellen had said that her mother was afraid of the ocean, that it was too cold and too big. The sky wa...
LOIS LOWRY![]()
There was an ocean above us, held in by a thin sac that might rupture and let down a flood at any se...
STEPHEN KING![]()
He looked at the viewscreen and couldn’t believe it. If the other ship were any closer, then it wo...
CHRISTINA ENGELA![]()
(..)-Dr. G. would later say that the whole "my whole life flashed before me" phenomenon at the end i...
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE![]()
In the beginning there was nothing. God said, 'Let there be light!' And there was light. There was s...
ELLEN DEGENERES![]()
In the beginning there was nothing. God said, ‘Let there be light!’ And there was light. There w...
ELLEN DEGENERES The sky was full - of blue and sun. The ocean reflected it and was flat and glossy like a fancy ball...
KEVIN HENKES Maybe it does make sense for them to keep them there, but where would they put them? Camp Floyd is j...
MARTI ALLEN Enormous. Cold. It stretched on forever, in every direction. If I hadn't know otherwise, I would've ...
HELENE WECKER![]()
In the beginning there was nothing. God said, 'Let there be light!' And there was light. The...
ELLEN DEGENERES I looked at my friend. I don’t know what I had done to deserve her friendship but she was always t...
AMANDA STONE![]()
There was once an invisible man who had grown tired of being unseen. It was not that he was ac...
PATRICK NESS![]()
She had been in situations like this, where people said, Convince me, and in none of those had they ...
MAX BARRY![]()
She was still on the fall down. There was no getting up, because there was no bottom.
SARAH J. MAAS Positivity is Like airbubbles at the bottom of the Ocean. No matter how hard you try to hold them do...
KēVENS The light was luminescence and gloom, like the sky at midnight speckled with stars. All she could sm...
SAMANTHA LEE CHURCHER![]()
The jolt that Tony Blair received 35,000ft above the Pacific Ocean was not normal turbulence.
TONY BLAIR The ocean was the best place, of course. That was what she loved most. It was a feeling of freedom l...
ANN BRASHARES At halftime, they were calm. There was no finger pointing, no sense of panic. You could tell nobody ...
BRUCE WASEM Lunch (at the two elementary schools) was a little longer than normal, but it will be until they get...
JEFFREY CLARK![]()
The children had had an argument once about whether there was more grass in the world or more sand, ...
DAPHNE DU MAURIER![]()
During my first open ocean dive, I went down to 800 feet and turned out the lights. I knew I would s...
EDITH WIDDER![]()
Well, it was never supposed to be like that. Walt died before we had finished. The original idea of ...
JOHN HENCH![]()
Even in our deep ocean, there are ecosystems at work with no light whatsoever down in the deepest po...
ALAN STERN The bottom had arrived. She crashed against it, but it brought no sense of closure or understanding....
ANN BRASHARES You used to look down from Meredith, and it was a wasteland from us to 10th Street. We could see the...
ART SLUSARK![]()
It was as if when I looked into his eyes I was standing alone on the edge of the world...on a windsw...
ANNE RICE It was a realization that I hadn't gotten all the parts [of Iraq's nuclear program]. So there was a ...
DAVID KAY My wife said she saw me warm up and she went upstairs behind the bullpen to bring others to watch me...
TODD COFFEY It was awfully hard on my mother. She had trouble facing it, ... She was a farm girl and never hardl...
JEANNE PYLE![]()
It wasn't about how she looked, which was pretty, even though she was always wearing the wrong cloth...
KAMI GARCIA Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi...
MARIANA FULGER![]()
The real truth was taken by pirates and is at the bottom of the ocean. You will have to go deep to ...
JAMES DYE I became used to it. At that time, you are 18 years old. You don't think it's real. I was just tryin...
CHARLES PETERSON Being at school, being who I am, being an athlete, it was hard to find people like me. There's n...
SALLY PEARSON![]()
I was waiting for the longest time, she said. I thought you forgot.
It is hard to forget,...
BRIAN ANDREAS There is no escape if love is not there," Hannah had said. Had Hannah known when she herself had not...
ELIZABETH GEORGE SPEARE![]()
It was like being part of a wave of water,” she says. “A wave of spray from the ocean feels powe...
NAOMI ALDERMAN![]()
She had been here for the protests three years earlier; yes, she had held up her banner and shouted ...
NAOMI ALDERMAN Maybe...just maybe, the light can reach even the bottom of a dark ocean.
ARIMA KOUSEI![]()
You did the best you could, the best you knew how at the time." It was something like that. From Opr...
OPRAH WINFREY![]()
The metaphor is so obvious. Easter Island isolated in the Pacific Ocean — once the island got into...
JARED DIAMOND![]()
The metaphor is so obvious. Easter Island, isolated in the Pacific Ocean — once the island got int...
JARED DIAMOND![]()
How much time could you spend staring out the ocean, even if it was the ocean you'd loved since you ...
PHILIP ROTH![]()
The Third Tale
There was once an invisible man who had grown tired of being unseen. It was not ...
PATRICK NESS![]()
Then Deborah stood at the wicket gate, the boundary, and there was a woman with outstretched hand, d...
DAPHNE DU MAURIER It's a creepy one. The singer gets to lead that one. There are a bunch of times where we stop and sh...
DOMINIC SUCHYTA This was a normal town once, and we were normal people. Most of us worked at the plastics factory on...
R.L. STINE They came out and got three quick baskets on us. But still I think the turning point was when it was...
ERIC SITZE It was very exciting. There weren't a whole lot of people there, but they made a whole lot of noise.
DAVE ORLANDINI It was scary to walk in there and see all those ropes hanging. It brought it to reality. It was like...
JEAN PRICE![]()
I guess that's how they were able to do it, in the way they did, all at once, without anyone knowing...
MARGARET ATWOOD Although sex was something they both regarded as perilous, marriage had, by contrast, seemed safe–...
MICHAEL CHABON![]()
What gets me most about these people, Daddy, isn't how ignorant they are, or how much they drink. It...
KURT VONNEGUT My first thought was that I had definitely hit it good, ... You're supposed to keep your head down, ...
ANDREW LARSON![]()
Is there a lot of stuff you don't understand? she said & I said pretty much the whole thing &...
BRIAN ANDREAS I thought we had control of the whole game. I thought we played very well except for a penalty here ...
MIKE MCSHANE![]()
They thought that it would be a disgrace to go forth as a group. Each entered the forest at a point ...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL![]()
Cubism was an attack on the perspective that had been known and used for 500 years. It was the first...
DAVID HOCKNEY![]()
That was when they suspended the Constitution. They said it would be temporary. There wasn't even an...
MARGARET ATWOOD It was like a war zone down there, there was just crap everywhere. It was like a bomb went off on ev...
DUSTIN BRUNS He stood frozen, staring at me as if he didn’t know how to do anything else. I couldn’t focus; i...
ROSE FALL![]()
It was then that she cut him off in midsentence and said that it was over. She said it with a certai...
NEAL STEPHENSON I thought at most it was an innocent tangle of legs. Having seen it four or five times on TV, I'm no...
JOE ROYLE![]()
Being in love was like China: you knew it was there, and no doubt it was very interesting, and some ...
PHILIP PULLMAN![]()
Midland City had a goddess of discord all its own. This was a goddess who could not dance, would not...
KURT VONNEGUT No sky Leila had seen before could compare to the beauty she was seeing above her. It didn't feel li...
ADI ALSAID![]()
Look," Peter said.
To the north was a series of vast grassy plains, and there, just looking lik...
JODI LYNN ANDERSON Even down to the most insignificant detail, they had it exactly, ... it was as if you had stepped ou...
TODD HOLLENSHEAD![]()
It was like she was cheated. Only nobody had cheated her. So there was nobody to take it out on. How...
CARSON MCCULLERS Being in love was like China: you knew it was there, and no doubt it was very interesting, and some ...
PHILLIP PULLMAN It was a real body; there can be no doubt about that. Hundreds of people could not have been so mist...
DAVID WINTER She was dry. She was lying on something soft. She was wrapped in quilts. There was a star of light d...
ERIN BOW![]()
His grandmother had taught him that there was no such thing as coincidence. There are millions of pe...
JODI PICOULT It was about 1951. She had written me and said he was very special and he thought she was very speci...
EDYTHE SCOTT BAGLEY![]()
She was an ocean, confined in a coffee mug. And she had the galaxies, confined in her pretty eyes.
AKSHAY VASU 38. “A wet bird never flies at night.” (My grandfather said that to me when I was a child and wa...
JAMES C. DOBSON The Navy, from early on, knew this was important. They could have dumped it in the ocean. We don't k...
DANIEL MARTINEZ Columbus played a great game. Even though it was a boring game, it was good for them because they sa...
ANTONIO MARTINEZ People give you a hard time about being a kid at twelve. They didn't want to give you Halloween cand...
HEATHER O'NEILL![]()
Amo amas amat amamus amatis amant amavi amavisti amavit amavimus amavistis amaverunt amavero amaveri...
IRIS MURDOCH It was kind of a lot to take in, but it was extremely interesting. It makes you think about how many...
AMY WILLIAMS![]()
She stared at me "You have a message," she said. "On you machine."
I looked over at my answerin...
JEFF LINDSAY![]()
It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER![]()
The fact was that, as droves of demon kings had noticed, there was a limit to what you could do to a...
TERRY PRATCHETT It was so nice. And to talk about other things for a whole week, we didn't talk about going to docto...
DARLENE ROSE![]()
To lose your everyday life of surfing and being creative on waves, enjoying the ocean - that's s...
BETHANY HAMILTON It was spring, mud season. They had to sleep in a barn. They said they thought they would freeze to ...
JUDY DERBY![]()
Light travels differently in a room that contains another person; it reflects and refracts so that e...
DAVID NICHOLLS![]()
But maybe you never really had someone, she thought now. Maybe, no matter how much you loved them, t...
CASSANDRA CLARE It was like the whole bay was boiling at this point. They were up and down and making noise. ... It ...
KATHY ARNTZEN The story of how He created the world aroused their interests immediately, even though they received...
HALLDóR LAXNESS![]()
Insofar as she recognized at all that she was dreaming, she realized that she must be exploring her ...
DOUGLAS ADAMS No matter how much he talked, she never answered him, but he knew she was still there. He knew it wa...
PAT CUNNINGHAM DEVOTO![]()
Jonn Deire picked up eight yellowed and dog-eared cards from the pile, grumbling ‘garrn’ under h...
CHRISTINA ENGELA There was a time that I was only known for being a plagiarist. It used to hurt at times because ther...
PRITAM CHAKRABORTY They touched down very gently. They were very close to empty (on fuel). They had to land today. Ther...
DON CAMERON I thought it was a neat thing they did. We had a small remembrance here at school on Friday. In smal...
JERRY MORTIMER
FUYUMI ONO I saw also that there was an ocean of darkness and death, but an infinite ocean of light and love, w...
GEORGE FOX
Ellen had said that her mother was afraid of the ocean, that it was too cold and too big. The sky wa... LOIS LOWRY
There was an ocean above us, held in by a thin sac that might rupture and let down a flood at any se... STEPHEN KING
He looked at the viewscreen and couldn’t believe it. If the other ship were any closer, then it wo... CHRISTINA ENGELA
(..)-Dr. G. would later say that the whole "my whole life flashed before me" phenomenon at the end i... DAVID FOSTER WALLACE
In the beginning there was nothing. God said, 'Let there be light!' And there was light. There was s... ELLEN DEGENERES
In the beginning there was nothing. God said, ‘Let there be light!’ And there was light. There w... ELLEN DEGENERES The sky was full - of blue and sun. The ocean reflected it and was flat and glossy like a fancy ball...
KEVIN HENKES Maybe it does make sense for them to keep them there, but where would they put them? Camp Floyd is j...
MARTI ALLEN Enormous. Cold. It stretched on forever, in every direction. If I hadn't know otherwise, I would've ...
HELENE WECKER
In the beginning there was nothing. God said, 'Let there be light!' And there was light. The... ELLEN DEGENERES I looked at my friend. I don’t know what I had done to deserve her friendship but she was always t...
AMANDA STONE
There was once an invisible man who had grown tired of being unseen. It was not that he was ac... PATRICK NESS
She had been in situations like this, where people said, Convince me, and in none of those had they ... MAX BARRY
She was still on the fall down. There was no getting up, because there was no bottom. SARAH J. MAAS Positivity is Like airbubbles at the bottom of the Ocean. No matter how hard you try to hold them do...
KēVENS The light was luminescence and gloom, like the sky at midnight speckled with stars. All she could sm...
SAMANTHA LEE CHURCHER
The jolt that Tony Blair received 35,000ft above the Pacific Ocean was not normal turbulence. TONY BLAIR The ocean was the best place, of course. That was what she loved most. It was a feeling of freedom l...
ANN BRASHARES At halftime, they were calm. There was no finger pointing, no sense of panic. You could tell nobody ...
BRUCE WASEM Lunch (at the two elementary schools) was a little longer than normal, but it will be until they get...
JEFFREY CLARK
The children had had an argument once about whether there was more grass in the world or more sand, ... DAPHNE DU MAURIER
During my first open ocean dive, I went down to 800 feet and turned out the lights. I knew I would s... EDITH WIDDER
Well, it was never supposed to be like that. Walt died before we had finished. The original idea of ... JOHN HENCH
Even in our deep ocean, there are ecosystems at work with no light whatsoever down in the deepest po... ALAN STERN The bottom had arrived. She crashed against it, but it brought no sense of closure or understanding....
ANN BRASHARES You used to look down from Meredith, and it was a wasteland from us to 10th Street. We could see the...
ART SLUSARK
It was as if when I looked into his eyes I was standing alone on the edge of the world...on a windsw... ANNE RICE It was a realization that I hadn't gotten all the parts [of Iraq's nuclear program]. So there was a ...
DAVID KAY My wife said she saw me warm up and she went upstairs behind the bullpen to bring others to watch me...
TODD COFFEY It was awfully hard on my mother. She had trouble facing it, ... She was a farm girl and never hardl...
JEANNE PYLE
It wasn't about how she looked, which was pretty, even though she was always wearing the wrong cloth... KAMI GARCIA Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi...
MARIANA FULGER
The real truth was taken by pirates and is at the bottom of the ocean. You will have to go deep to ... JAMES DYE I became used to it. At that time, you are 18 years old. You don't think it's real. I was just tryin...
CHARLES PETERSON Being at school, being who I am, being an athlete, it was hard to find people like me. There's n...
SALLY PEARSON
I was waiting for the longest time, she said. I thought you forgot.It is hard to forget,...
BRIAN ANDREAS There is no escape if love is not there," Hannah had said. Had Hannah known when she herself had not...
ELIZABETH GEORGE SPEARE
It was like being part of a wave of water,” she says. “A wave of spray from the ocean feels powe... NAOMI ALDERMAN
She had been here for the protests three years earlier; yes, she had held up her banner and shouted ... NAOMI ALDERMAN Maybe...just maybe, the light can reach even the bottom of a dark ocean.
ARIMA KOUSEI
You did the best you could, the best you knew how at the time." It was something like that. From Opr... OPRAH WINFREY
The metaphor is so obvious. Easter Island isolated in the Pacific Ocean — once the island got into... JARED DIAMOND
The metaphor is so obvious. Easter Island, isolated in the Pacific Ocean — once the island got int... JARED DIAMOND
How much time could you spend staring out the ocean, even if it was the ocean you'd loved since you ... PHILIP ROTH
The Third TaleThere was once an invisible man who had grown tired of being unseen. It was not ...
PATRICK NESS
Then Deborah stood at the wicket gate, the boundary, and there was a woman with outstretched hand, d... DAPHNE DU MAURIER It's a creepy one. The singer gets to lead that one. There are a bunch of times where we stop and sh...
DOMINIC SUCHYTA This was a normal town once, and we were normal people. Most of us worked at the plastics factory on...
R.L. STINE They came out and got three quick baskets on us. But still I think the turning point was when it was...
ERIC SITZE It was very exciting. There weren't a whole lot of people there, but they made a whole lot of noise.
DAVE ORLANDINI It was scary to walk in there and see all those ropes hanging. It brought it to reality. It was like...
JEAN PRICE
I guess that's how they were able to do it, in the way they did, all at once, without anyone knowing... MARGARET ATWOOD Although sex was something they both regarded as perilous, marriage had, by contrast, seemed safe–...
MICHAEL CHABON
What gets me most about these people, Daddy, isn't how ignorant they are, or how much they drink. It... KURT VONNEGUT My first thought was that I had definitely hit it good, ... You're supposed to keep your head down, ...
ANDREW LARSON
Is there a lot of stuff you don't understand? she said & I said pretty much the whole thing &... BRIAN ANDREAS I thought we had control of the whole game. I thought we played very well except for a penalty here ...
MIKE MCSHANE
They thought that it would be a disgrace to go forth as a group. Each entered the forest at a point ... JOSEPH CAMPBELL
Cubism was an attack on the perspective that had been known and used for 500 years. It was the first... DAVID HOCKNEY
That was when they suspended the Constitution. They said it would be temporary. There wasn't even an... MARGARET ATWOOD It was like a war zone down there, there was just crap everywhere. It was like a bomb went off on ev...
DUSTIN BRUNS He stood frozen, staring at me as if he didn’t know how to do anything else. I couldn’t focus; i...
ROSE FALL
It was then that she cut him off in midsentence and said that it was over. She said it with a certai... NEAL STEPHENSON I thought at most it was an innocent tangle of legs. Having seen it four or five times on TV, I'm no...
JOE ROYLE
Being in love was like China: you knew it was there, and no doubt it was very interesting, and some ... PHILIP PULLMAN
Midland City had a goddess of discord all its own. This was a goddess who could not dance, would not... KURT VONNEGUT No sky Leila had seen before could compare to the beauty she was seeing above her. It didn't feel li...
ADI ALSAID
Look," Peter said.To the north was a series of vast grassy plains, and there, just looking lik...
JODI LYNN ANDERSON Even down to the most insignificant detail, they had it exactly, ... it was as if you had stepped ou...
TODD HOLLENSHEAD
It was like she was cheated. Only nobody had cheated her. So there was nobody to take it out on. How... CARSON MCCULLERS Being in love was like China: you knew it was there, and no doubt it was very interesting, and some ...
PHILLIP PULLMAN It was a real body; there can be no doubt about that. Hundreds of people could not have been so mist...
DAVID WINTER She was dry. She was lying on something soft. She was wrapped in quilts. There was a star of light d...
ERIN BOW
His grandmother had taught him that there was no such thing as coincidence. There are millions of pe... JODI PICOULT It was about 1951. She had written me and said he was very special and he thought she was very speci...
EDYTHE SCOTT BAGLEY
She was an ocean, confined in a coffee mug. And she had the galaxies, confined in her pretty eyes. AKSHAY VASU 38. “A wet bird never flies at night.” (My grandfather said that to me when I was a child and wa...
JAMES C. DOBSON The Navy, from early on, knew this was important. They could have dumped it in the ocean. We don't k...
DANIEL MARTINEZ Columbus played a great game. Even though it was a boring game, it was good for them because they sa...
ANTONIO MARTINEZ People give you a hard time about being a kid at twelve. They didn't want to give you Halloween cand...
HEATHER O'NEILL
Amo amas amat amamus amatis amant amavi amavisti amavit amavimus amavistis amaverunt amavero amaveri... IRIS MURDOCH It was kind of a lot to take in, but it was extremely interesting. It makes you think about how many...
AMY WILLIAMS
She stared at me "You have a message," she said. "On you machine."I looked over at my answerin...
JEFF LINDSAY
It is a lie. ARTHUR MILLER
The fact was that, as droves of demon kings had noticed, there was a limit to what you could do to a... TERRY PRATCHETT It was so nice. And to talk about other things for a whole week, we didn't talk about going to docto...
DARLENE ROSE
To lose your everyday life of surfing and being creative on waves, enjoying the ocean - that's s... BETHANY HAMILTON It was spring, mud season. They had to sleep in a barn. They said they thought they would freeze to ...
JUDY DERBY
Light travels differently in a room that contains another person; it reflects and refracts so that e... DAVID NICHOLLS
But maybe you never really had someone, she thought now. Maybe, no matter how much you loved them, t... CASSANDRA CLARE It was like the whole bay was boiling at this point. They were up and down and making noise. ... It ...
KATHY ARNTZEN The story of how He created the world aroused their interests immediately, even though they received...
HALLDóR LAXNESS
Insofar as she recognized at all that she was dreaming, she realized that she must be exploring her ... DOUGLAS ADAMS No matter how much he talked, she never answered him, but he knew she was still there. He knew it wa...
PAT CUNNINGHAM DEVOTO
Jonn Deire picked up eight yellowed and dog-eared cards from the pile, grumbling ‘garrn’ under h... CHRISTINA ENGELA There was a time that I was only known for being a plagiarist. It used to hurt at times because ther...
PRITAM CHAKRABORTY They touched down very gently. They were very close to empty (on fuel). They had to land today. Ther...
DON CAMERON I thought it was a neat thing they did. We had a small remembrance here at school on Friday. In smal...
JERRY MORTIMER
For me it's a remarkable thing that there is a prize celebrating and honouring and making for a ... 
I've always thought that you don't love a country by turning a blind eye to its crimes and t... 
Migration gives a blank cheque to put anything you don't feel like addressing in the memory hold... 