Best Shoal Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Home for the soldiers must be the fishing town, its harbour patrolled by gulls, for there was nowhere else to go if they came this way. If they kept on walking, they’d topple into the sea.”

Home Sea Fishing Soldiers Harbour Gulls Shoal

Book:Shoal: A Thanet Writers Anthology

Source: Shoal: A Thanet Writers Anthology

“It’s a traveller, he says, it’s lost like us, a wanderer covering miles. A scavenger that lives amongst the rocks and steals to live. It’s beautiful.”

Beautiful Lost Rocks Traveller Wanderer Pigeon Shoal Scavenger

Book:Shoal: A Thanet Writers Anthology

Source: Shoal: A Thanet Writers Anthology

“I had tried to make it beautiful with a spray of golden and orange autumn leaves in an empty green wine bottle on the floor by the hearth, with a string of tiny mouse skulls and soft white dove feathers hanging above my bed, and a cluster of dried rose hips pinned behind the door.”

Beautiful Golden Autumn Feathers Skulls Mouse Shoal Hearth Wine Bottle

Book:Shoal: A Thanet Writers Anthology

Source: Shoal: A Thanet Writers Anthology

“There were rumours of underwater cities, subterranean caves dripping with the blood of human sacrifice and even the odd story about natives interbreeding with some of the more attractive fish.”

Blood Story Caves Fish Underwater Shoal Subterranean

Book:Shoal: A Thanet Writers Anthology

Source: Shoal: A Thanet Writers Anthology

“Gradually the winds became more frequent and aggressive, forcing the trees to abandon their leaves that passed over me like pixies venturing into the night on wild stallions.”

Aggressive Trees Leaves Pixies Stallions Winds Shoal

Book:Shoal: A Thanet Writers Anthology

Source: Shoal: A Thanet Writers Anthology

“A long line of statues accompany the path, covered in moss and white blotches. But they’re not the angelic forms I had expected. They cower, slight and childlike.”

Path Statues Childlike Moss Angelic Shoal Cower

Book:Shoal: A Thanet Writers Anthology

Source: Shoal: A Thanet Writers Anthology

“John swallowed and flexed his trigger finger as her head passed the centre of his cross-hair; that place was reserved.”

Reserved Trigger Shoal Sniper Swallowed Cross Hair

Book:Shoal: A Thanet Writers Anthology

Source: Shoal: A Thanet Writers Anthology

“Every morning he cast a mistrustful glance at the mirror then dragged a safety razor across cheeks that bore the faint shadow of teenage blemishes that countless facials and laser treatments hadn’t entirely eradicated.”

Shadow Teenage Mirror Razor Shoal Glance Mistrustful

Book:Shoal: A Thanet Writers Anthology

Source: Shoal: A Thanet Writers Anthology

“He had a stiff drink and it was then that he started to think about love.”

Love Drink Think Started Shoal Stiff

Book:Shoal: A Thanet Writers Anthology

Source: Shoal: A Thanet Writers Anthology

“It’s weird how the mind remembers the silly details. I still can’t remember the colour of my wife’s eyes, but I can remember that we were arguing about mayonnaise.”

Mind Arguing Silly Colour Eyes Mayonnaise Shoal Remembers

Book:Shoal: A Thanet Writers Anthology

Source: Shoal: A Thanet Writers Anthology

“Laughter bounced off the seats like party balloons, each ear catching its sound, magnifying it, carrying it forwards and backwards, soaring on a ripple of words.”

Sound Party Laughter Words Catching Ripple Magnifying Shoal

Book:Shoal: A Thanet Writers Anthology

Source: Shoal: A Thanet Writers Anthology

“With every second in the lift the temperature plummets. I’m beginning to think I should have stayed where I was.”

Temperature Second Lift Elevator Shoal Stayed

Book:Shoal: A Thanet Writers Anthology

Source: Shoal: A Thanet Writers Anthology

“It was a gentle hum of quiet that he enjoyed as if it was the first time.”

Quiet First Time Enjoyed Gentle First Shoal

Book:Shoal: A Thanet Writers Anthology

Source: Shoal: A Thanet Writers Anthology

“Their arrival was heralded by a speedy whooshing and whirring, accented with clattering clunks and clicks.”

Clicks Arrival Shoal Speedy Whooshing

Book:Shoal: A Thanet Writers Anthology

Source: Shoal: A Thanet Writers Anthology

“The huge ears flapped and it lifted its head to show off the long curving tusks adorned with flowers made by the children. When the animatronic mammoth trumpeted triumphantly, windows a mile away vibrated and locals called the police.”

Children Ears Police Flowers Windows Shoal Mammoth Tusks

Book:Shoal: A Thanet Writers Anthology

Source: Shoal: A Thanet Writers Anthology