“Walter loves the sea, and I need it in some elemental way that I cannot even come close to verbalizing. I become dim and shriveled somehow at my very core if I am away from the sea too long. When I return to it I seem to fill up and overflow with it, soaking in the vast, sighing wetness of it like a parched vine in a long, soft spring rain.” IfsWayNeedsLongSeemsSeaReturnSpringRainCoreVinesOverflowElementalsSoakingSpring RainWetness Book:House Next Door Source: House Next Door
“I could run nearly naked on a hot, windy beach and plunge without care into a running diamond sea; roll on the sand and fling my arms wide to the sun and still be what I was...young.” StillsCareRunningYoungSunSeaArmsHotWideNakedBeachSandDiamondPlungeFlingWindy Author:Anne Rivers Siddons
“That sinuous southern life, that oblique and slow and complicated old beauty, that warm thick air and blood warm sea, that place of mists and languor and fragrant richness.” AirBloodSeaComplicatedWarmSouthernThickRichnessMist Book:Colony Source: Colony
