Boat Quotes - Page 39

• Take from my palms, to soothe your heart, a little honey, a little sun, in obedience to Persephone's bees. You can't untie a boat that was never moored, nor hear a shadow in its furs, nor move through thick life without fear. For us, all that's left is kisses tattered as the little bees that die when they leave the hive. Deep in the transparent night they're still humming, at home in the dark wood on the mountain, in the mint and lungwort and the past. But lay to your heart my rough gift, this unlovely dry necklace of dead bees that once made a sun out of honey.

  Osip Mandelstam

  Moving, Home, Heart

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• Sometimes maybe you should let someone you love travel great distances away from you. You shouldn’t think you needed to set out to retrieve them and put them back where they belonged. Sometimes they were only safe and happy, like Annabelle Aurora. And then other times, it was just possible they were lost at sea. It would be your duty, then, to get out into the boat and search, even if the waves were choppy and the wind was howling the protests of the dead.

  Deb Caletti

  Distance, Thinking, Wind

  Deb Caletti (2011). “Stay”, p.200, Simon and Schuster

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• Because after the haze of not being kissed cleared I was forced to face the facts that: 1. Jack was a very bad guy. 2. Jack had threatened Fred. 3. Just thinking that he was going to kiss me made me tingly everywhere 4. In a way no other guy had 5. And that was without our mouths even touching 6. Which meant that 7. If they did 8. Wooohoo baby! 9. Except that it did not matter 10. At all 11. Because he was plotting against fred 12. And I was complicit in whatever he planned if I didn't tell Mr. Curtis 13. And I was trapped in a boat with a woman singing showtunes.

  Michele Jaffe

  Baby, Kissing, Thinking

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• Not that I was incapable of friendship. 'Don't be shy', the teachers coaxed. I was not shy, only extremely choosy. And Denise shone like a diamond. If you had to ask me to define paradise, I would have said a desert island which Denise could visit, on a boat.

  Anneli Rufus

  Teacher, Islands, Shy

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• Rock star do not jump!" The launch was cutting sharply, its skipper calling out a phrase that bore no relationship to the English language as Amy knew it. "Rock star in a hurry!" Nellie replied, one foot on the boat's gunwale.

  Peter Lerangis

  Stars, Cutting, Rocks

  Peter Lerangis (2011). “The 39 Clues #7: The Viper's Nest”, p.12, Scholastic Inc.

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• It is a curious fact, but nobody ever is sea-sick - on land. At sea, you come across plenty of people very bad indeed, whole boat-loads of them; but I never met a man yet, on land, who had ever known at all what it was to be sea-sick. Where the thousands upon thousands of bad sailors that swarm in every ship hide themselves when they are on land is a mystery.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Men, Sea, Land

  Jerome K. Jerome “Annotated Three Men in a Boat with English Grammar Exercises: by Jerome K. Jerome (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, Powell Publications, LLC

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• Roark smiled, "Gail, if this boat were sinking, I'd give my life to save you. Not because it's any kind of duty. Only because I like you, for reasons and standards of my own. I could die for you. But I couldn't and wouldn't live for you.

  Ayn Rand

  I Like You, Giving, Kind

  Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.580, Penguin

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• It was ironic, but when you scratched the surface, most successful men were working for one thing only--to retire--and the sooner the better. Whereas women were the complete opposite. She had never heard a woman say she was working so she could retire to a desert island or to live on a boat. It was probably, she thought, because most women didn't think they deserved to do nothing.

  Candace Bushnell

  Successful, Men, Thinking

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• What's the point? was my attitude. We're all just going to die and then NOT be let on the boat.

  Meg Cabot

  Attitude, My Attitude, Dies

  Meg Cabot (2013). “The Abandon Trilogy: Abandon, Underworld and Awaken”, p.77, Pan Macmillan

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• You stole a boat,” she snapped. “What am I doing with you, you boat-stealing lunatic?

  Cassandra Clare

  Stealing, Lunatic

  Twitter post from Apr 18, 2011

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• Hale!' Kat cried, but the boy only stared at her. 'Fine,' she conceded. 'I love your boat.' 'Ship.' 'Ship ... Your ship is beautiful.

  Ally Carter

  Beautiful, Boys, Ships

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• 'It’s, like, one of them drug dealer boats,' Vic says, looking through his magic sight. 'Five guys on it. Headed our way.' He fires another round. 'Correction. Four guys on it.' Boom. 'Correction, they’re not headed our way anymore.' Boom. A fireball erupts from the ocean two hundred feet away. 'Correction. No boat.'

  Neal Stephenson

  Ocean, Fire, Sight

  "Snow Crash". Book by Neal Stephenson, Chapter 51, 1992.

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• A hundred years from now, people will look back on us and laugh. They'll say, 'You know what people used to believe? They believed in photons and electrons. Can you imagine anything so silly?' They'll have a good laugh, because by then there will be newer better fantasies... And meanwhile, you feel the way the boat moves? That's the sea. That's real. You smell the salt in the air? You feel the sunlight on your skin? That's all real. Life is wonderful. It's a gift to be alive, to see the sun and breathe the air. And there isn't really anything else.

  Michael Crichton

  Real, Silly, Moving

  Michael Crichton (1997). “The Lost World”, Knopf

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• Dan moved forward and replaced Jonah at the helm. "I've got a plan!" "That's my man!" The famous grin disappeared as Jonah took in the grim determination in Dan's features. His expression was as flat and expressionless as a naked skull. Dan steered the hurtling boat directly toward the rocky shore. "Amy, hang onto that painting!" "That's not a plan!" Jonah shouted. "That's suicide!

  Gordon Korman

  Suicide, Determination, Men

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• It's called a sea anchor,' [Evanlyn] explained. 'It'll stop us drifting too far.' Alyss was impressed. 'And you said you were pig-ignorant when it came to boats.' 'I don't remember saying that,' Evanlyn replied with a frown. Alyss shrugged. 'Oh? Well, it must have been me.

  John Flanagan

  Pigs, Anchors, Sea

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• I like pessimists. They’re always the ones who bring life jackets for the boat.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Pessimist, Jackets

  Lisa Kleypas (2012). “Christmas with Holly”, p.101, Macmillan

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• We're all sinking in the same boat here. We're all bored and desperate and waiting for something to happen. Waiting for life to get better. Waiting for things to change. Waiting for that one person to finally notice us. We're all waiting. But we also need to realize that we all have the power to make those changes for ourselves.

  Susane Colasanti

  Change, Bored, Waiting

  Susane Colasanti (2009). “Waiting For You”, p.33, Penguin

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• We raise our children, especially girls, to ignore their spontaneious reactions-we teach them not to rock the societal boat...By the time she is thirty, the valient little girl's "Ick!"-her tendency to respond, to rock the boat, when someone's actions are really mean, may have been exciese from her behavior, and perhaps from her very mind.

  Martha Stout

  Girl, Children, Mean

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• A part of a healthy conscience is being able to confront consciencelessness. When you teach your daughter, explicitly or by passive rejection, that she must ignore her outrage, that she must be kind and accepting to the point of not defending herself or other people, that she must not rock the boat for any reason, you are NOT strengthening her posocial sense, you are damaging it-and the first person she will stop protecting is herself.

  Martha Stout

  Daughter, Rocks, People

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• No rescue boat can save the touches I left bobbing in the wild ocean of your flesh, but if they cut open your heart, like the belly of a shark, dumped its contents on a table—would there be any trace of me?

  Jeffrey McDaniel

  Ocean, Heart, Cutting

  Jeffrey McDaniel (2002). “Splinter Factory”, p.49, Manic D Press

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• What the eye does not see, the stomach does not get upset over

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Eye, Upset, Doe

  Jerome K. Jerome (2014). “Three Men in a Boat”, p.185, BookRix

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• Oh my God," Maddie whispered, horrified. "I rented him that boat. Does that make me a murderer?" Tara's heart clutched. "He's not dead yet." "Hurry," Maddie called to Ford. "I can't be the one who killed Tara's ex!" I look terrible in orange!

  Jill Shalvis

  Heart, Orange, Looks

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• Far below ran the silver ribbon of the East River, braceleted by shining bridges, flecked by boats as small as flyspecks, splitting the shining banks of light that were Manhattan and Brooklyn on either side.

  Cassandra Clare

  Light, Bridges, Rivers

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.468, Simon and Schuster

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• A Boat O beautiful was the werewolf in his evil forest. We took him to the carnival and he started crying when he saw the Ferris wheel. Electric green and red tears flowed down his furry cheeks. He looked like a boat out on the dark water.

  Richard Brautigan

  Beautiful, Dark, Evil

  Richard Brautigan (1989). “Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America, The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster, and In Watermelon Sugar”, p.148, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• She put her hand on her hip. "Where are you going?" "To the boat. You called me Lord Bill again. That means we're cool." Cerise slapped her forehead with the heel of her hand and followed him.

  Ilona Andrews

  Mean, Hands, Bills

  Ilona Andrews (2010). “Bayou Moon”, p.126, Penguin

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