Ocean Quotes
One's own form of sensibility is not not necessarily another's. Common sense is not so common.
Higher consciousness means your self consciousness ceases to exist
In Sarasota, Florida, Stephen King reminded me of the joy of just writing every day.
I thought about adults. I wondered if that was true: if they were all really children wrapped in adult bodies...
Children, as I have said, use back ways and hidden paths, while adults take roads and official paths
I wanted to shout down to him, to warn him that he was giving flowers to a monster, but I did not.
Nobody actually looks like what they really are on the inside. You don't. I don't.
No one has ever held me so tightly. It's a shock to matter this much. It isn't like arms are around me, it's more like a house, as if he has made a house around me. As he did around Tommy.
Memories were waiting at the edges of things, beckoning to me.
Hasn't there always been a moon?""Bless you. Not in the slightest. I remember the day the moon came. We looked up in the sky--it was all dirty brown and sooty gray here then, not green and blue...
It is a mother's noble conceit to believe she has the power to take her child's suffering and do it for him.
The silence isn't so bad, till I look at my hands and feel sad. Because the spaces between my fingers are right where yours fit perfectly.
Just as the sea is an open and ever flowing reality, so should our oceanic identity transcend all forms of insularity, to become one that is openly searching, inventive, and welcoming.
If I could talk about it, I would not have to do it. I make art.
But I do not actually remember being a monster. I just remember wanting my own way.
Prolific irony - For 8 years, the finger on the button that could end the world belonged to a president who couldn't pronounce the word "nuclear.
Your right of religious freedom ends where my right of religious abstinence begins...
Even when dreaming, if the sentient beings who dwell in the three lower realms are witnessed, then at that moment one should pray to sever the continuity of their negat
After all, in this world of humans, he was little better than a monster, and what did a monster have to be afraid of in the dark?
... I am done being in love with you." "Why?""I am in love with someone else. Someone who needs it more than you." "Who?" "Me.
If I ever stop challenging myself, then I am getting lazy and comfortable and I am no longer growing. I hope to use life's challenges as stepping stones to ever greater things.
My mother is quiet. The way he acts, she thinks it must mean he doesn't love her as much as she loves him
The ball of dark fur pressed itself into my chest, and I wished she was my kitten, and knew that she was not.
She really was pretty, for a grown-up, but when you are seven, beauty is an abstraction, not an imperative.
The Best Thing I love about being a writer and a poet is, I can make up my own words to fit my imagination.
A full moon sprinkled the black ocean with diamonds, and she could imagine fairies dancing in the silver foam that laced the huge, dark waves.
