Beach Quotes - Page 33

• Once, she'd been a pro at decompressing, loved to sit on the back deck of the beach house in one of our splintery Adirondack chairs for hours at a time, staring at the ocean. She never had a book or the paper or anything else to distract her. Just the horizon, but it kept her attention, her gaze unwavering. Maybe it was the absence of thought that she loved about being out there, the world narrowing to just the pounding of the waves as the water moved in and out.

  Sarah Dessen

  Ocean, Book, Water

  Sarah Dessen (2006). “The Truth About Forever”, p.132, Penguin

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• I stole every nickel and blew it on fine threads, luxurious lodgings, fantastic foxes, and other sensual goodies. I partied in every capital in Europe and basked on all the world's most famous beaches.

  Frank Abagnale

  Europe, Sensual, World

  "Catch Me if You Can: The True Story of a Real Fake". Book by Frank W. Abagnale, 2000.

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• Two lost things that had survived the seas and arrived on a coastline. What did they do? They implanted themselves in the sand and grew into trees and lined the beaches. Sometimes a lot can come of being all washed up. You can really grow.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Sea, Two, Tree

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• Do I love you? My God, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches! If your love were-" "I don't understand that first one yet," Buttercup interrupted. She was starting to get very excited now. "Let me get this straight. Are you saying my love is a grain of sand and yours is this other thing? Images confuse me so - is this universal business of yours bigger than my sand? Help me, Westley. I have the feeling we're on the verge of something just terribly important.

  William Goldman

  Love You, Love Is, Feelings

  William Goldman (2013). “The Princess Bride”, p.47, A&C Black

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• You’re seriously not joking?” – Sundown “Really? How many more times are you going to ask me that? I could be on a beach right now with my wife, son, and daughter, baking in the sun while they frolic and play. Am I? No. I’m here, and I want nothing more than to yank you around with bullshit ’cause this gets me off more than my wife running in a bikini.” – Zarek

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Daughter, Running, Son

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• Just like that. Gone forever. They will not grow old together. They will never live on a beach by the sea, their hair turned white, dancing in a living room to Billie Holiday or Nat Cole. They will not enter a New York club at midnight and show the poor hip-hop fools how to dance. They will not chuckle together over the endless folly of the world, its vanities and stupid ambitions. They will not hug each other in any chilly New York dawn. Oh, Mary Lou. My baby. My love.

  Pete Hamill

  Baby, New York, Stupid

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• She's a sun-kissed beach girl who goes gothgrungepunkhippierockeremocoremetalfreakfashionistabraingeekboycrazyhiphoprastagirl to keep it under wraps.

  Jandy Nelson

  Girl, Sun, Wraps

  Jandy Nelson (2010). “The Sky Is Everywhere”, p.39, Penguin

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• My first memory of loving music happened so early. We would always go to the beach in the summer and I would run from blanket to blanket, from family to family and just sing Lion King songs acapella.

  Taylor Swift

  Summer, Running, Song

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• There are videos where I would go approaching strangers and sing the songs from 'The Lion King. I would have been about four years, and I came running up to people on the beach, strangers that I chose at random and began to sing, and my family never knew where I was, they were always looking for me, trying to imagine who I was harassing this time .

  Taylor Swift

  Running, Song, Kings

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• Sean reaches between us and slides a thin bracelet of red ribbons over my free hand. Lifting my arm, he presses his lips against the inside of my wrist. I'm utterly still; I feel my pulse tap several times against his lips, and then he releases my hand. "For luck," he says. He takes Dove's lead from me. "Sean," I say, and he turns. I take his chin and kiss his lips, hard. I'm reminded, all of a sudden, of that first day on the beach, when I pulled his head from the water. "For luck," I say to his startled face.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Kissing, Hands, Water

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• Now, back to my vacation idea.” Finn grinned, showing off his perfect white teeth. “Just think about it. You, Owen, me, and Bria, all happily ensconced in a swanky hotel by a beautiful beach. Bria in a bikini. You and Owen doing your own thing, Bria in a bikini. Did I mention Bria in a bikini?

  Jennifer Estep

  Beautiful, Thinking, Vacation

  Jennifer Estep (2012). “Thread of Death”, p.71, Simon and Schuster

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• It's not enough to be numbered with the grains of sand on the beach and the stars in the sky.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Stars, Sky, Sand

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Fight Club”, p.141, Random House

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• On the beach, at dawn: Four small stones clearly Hugging each other. How many kinds of love Might there be in the world, And how many formations might they make And who am I ever To imagine I could know Such a marvelous business? When the sun broke It poured willingly its light Over the stones That did not move, not at all, Just as, to its always generous term, It shed its light on me, My own body that loves, Equally, to hug another body.

  Mary Oliver

  Moving, Light, Hug

  Mary Oliver (2010). “Swan: Poems and Prose Poems”, p.9, Beacon Press

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• This is the worst thing to happen to beaches since the Speedo.

  Bill Maher

  Worst, Speedos, Happens

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• living life was like putting the beach into a jar. The point wasn’t to fit everything in; it was to attend to the most important things first—the big, beautiful rocks—the most valuable people and experiences—and fit the lesser things in around them. Otherwise, the best things might get left out

  James Patterson

  Beautiful, Live Life, Rocks

  James Patterson (2004). “Sam's letters to Jennifer”

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• Beaches, music, and car rides—they could all bring on a sudden bout of deep, dreamy thoughts.

  Deb Caletti

  Car, Dreamy

  Deb Caletti (2013). “The Story of Us”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

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• A prosthetic leg with a Willie Nelson bumper sticker washed ashore on the beach, which meant it was Florida. Then it got weird.

  Tim Dorsey

  Florida, Legs, Bumper Sticker

  Tim Dorsey (2012). “Pineapple Grenade: A Novel”, p.7, Harper Collins

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• This time of year, I live and breathe the beach. My cheeks feel raw with the wind throwing sand against them. My thighs sting from the friction of the saddle. My arms ache from holding up two thousand pounds of horse. I have forgotten what it is like to be warm and what a full night’s sleep feels like and what my name sounds like spoken instead of shouted across yards of sand. I am so, so alive.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Horse, Sleep, Night

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “The Scorpio Races (Sneak Peek)”, p.4, Scholastic Inc.

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• Tea? At the beach? No time for luxuries, Holly. There is important work to be done.” He winked at Butler. “Are you sure you’re at the library? I thought I heard water.” Artemis smiled, enjoying the exchange. “Water? Surely not. The only thing flowing here is information.” “Are you grinning, Artemis? For some reason I get the feeling that you’re wearing that smug smile of yours.

  Eoin Colfer

  Luxury, Water, Hollies

  Eoin Colfer (2008). “Artemis Fowl: The Lost Colony”, Miramax

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• You want to know what I was thinking?...I was thinking that I wished you'd been with me the last couple of days. I mean, I enjoyed getting to know everyone better. We ate lunch together, and the dinner last night was a lot of fun, but it just felt like something was wrong, like I was missing something. It wasn't until I saw you walking up the beach that I realized it was you.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Couple, Fun, Mean

  Nicholas Sparks (2010). “Dear John”, p.71, Hachette UK

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• I should perhaps warn you that I am about to faint from anxiety and general depression, though. The film I saw last night was especially grueling, a teen-age beach musical. I almost collapsed during the singing sequence on surfboard.

  John Kennedy Toole

  Night, Anxiety, Musical

  John Kennedy Toole (1980). “A Confederacy of Dunces”, p.114, Dubois Publishing

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• People sometimes accuse me of knowing a lot. "Stephen," they say, accusingly, "you know a lot." This is a bit like telling a person who has a few grains of sand clinging to him that he owns much sand. When you consider the vast amount of sand there is in the world such a person is, to all intents and purposes, sandless. We are all sandless. We are all ignorant. There are beaches and deserts and dunes of knowledge whose existance we have never even guessed at, let alone visited.

  Stephen Fry

  Knowing, People, Ignorant

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• And when he came to, he was flat on his back on the beach in the freezing sand, and it was raining out of a low sky, and the tide was way out.

  David Foster Wallace

  Rain, Sky, Way

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• I want to build you a house with my bare hands and carry you over the threshold. I want too cook for you every evening and bring you tea in bed in the mornings. I want to read with you in front of an open fire, sipping a glass of wine. I want to drive you to the beach and lie next to you in the sun. I may not be a man of means, bit I want to take care of you as best I can.

  Catherine Sanderson

  Morning, Lying, Wine

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• We need to talk.” “I’m just – Look,” I said, as he took a step toward me. “I’m just going to give Cee Cee a call and maybe we’ll go to the beach or something, because I really … I just need a day off.”Another step toward me. Now he was right in front of me. “Especially,” I said significantly, looking up at him, “from talking. That’s what I especially need a day off from. Talking.” “Fine,” he said. He reached up and cupped my face in both his hands. “We don’t have to talk.”And that’s when he kissed me. On the lips.

  Meg Cabot

  Hands, Talking, Giving

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