“The ocean has a voice, one that haunts me with its music every moment Im awake. Even in my dreams it tugs on me, building the ache inside my bones until I cant ignore who I am. My mother says the w...”

“Im a natural-born ninja saddled with the awkward grace of a drunk camel.”

“I know I play with danger every time I swim, but I need this. I’m Mer and the ocean is mine.”

“The ocean has a voice, one that haunts me with its music every moment I’m awake. Even in my dreams it tugs on me, building the ache inside my bones until I can’t ignore who I am. My mother says the...”

“I’m a natural-born ninja saddled with the awkward grace of a drunk camel.”

“If in any quest for magic, in any search for sorcery, witchery, legerdemain, first check the human spirit.”

“It may be laid down as a general rule that if a man begins to sing, no one will take any notice of his song except his fellow human beings. This is true even if his song is surpassingly beautiful. ...”

“Magic or nature, they were much the same thing to Magnus.”

“And strange were the tales of the pond in the meadow,And eager we listened with eyes opened wideTo Those tales often told by poor Mary the widow,Who lived in a cottage the meadow beside.Play not, m...”

“In the ten houses the police had scouted, I hadn't sensed anything more dangerous than a pot that prevents over-boiling.”

“The ocean has a voice, one that haunts me with its music every moment Im awake. Even in my dreams it tugs on me, building the ache inside my bones until I cant ignore who I am. My mother says the w...”

“At such times, under an abated sun; afloat all day upon smooth, slow heaving swells; seated in his boat, light as a birch canoe; and so sociably mixing with the soft waves themselves, that like hea...”

“Down dropt the breeze, the sails dropt down, 'Twas sad as sad could be; And we did speak only to break The silence of the sea! All in a hot and copper sky, The bloody Sun, at noon, Right up above t...”

“When Rachel Carson accepted the National Book Award, she said, 'if there is poetry in my book about the sea it is not because I deliberately put it there but because no one could write truthfully a...”