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

“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.”

“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 stars twinkled above him brilliantly, representing all of the beautiful laws of the universe.”

“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...”

“If we can become still and open-minded we might all feel that unseen hand on our shoulder, letting us know we are not alone.”

“If we an become still and open-minded, we might all feel the unseen comforting hand on our shoulder letting us know we are not alone.”

“It was the sort of bone deep emotion that made him want to hold her tighter with one hand, and draw a sword against the world with the other.”