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“This is so funny, said Ellen, noticing the seating arrangement. Isnt this funny? Tom, come sit next to Robin. Griffin, sit next to Laura. I stood up and sat next to Robin while Griffin brought his ...”
“In the early morning on the lake sitting in the stern of the boat with his father rowing, he felt quite sure that he would never die.”
“If you are a boat and your lake is frozen, what can you do? You will wait for the spring! We are lucky that we are humans, we dont have to wait for the spring; we can break the ice if necessary, we...”
“When the tragedy begins and the boat begins to sink. I will do everything in my power to help save my mates, if they refuse my help I have no choice but to jump ship to save myself”
“Bad, or good, as it happens to be, that is what it is to exist! . . . It is as though I have been silent and fuddled with sleep all my life. In spite of all, I know now that at least it is better t...”
“I have a hunch the world is darker than I could ever imagine and there is less reason for hope than I am able to see. It makes me grateful there is only so much I can see, and I am left mostly with...”
“I had a dream I named my boat after you. I love to raise your mast.”
“This boat that we just built is just fine - And don't try to tell us it's not The sides and the back are divine - It's the bottom I guess we forgot”
“As the station wagon pulled back onto the highway, the sun was slowly sinking below the horizon like a leaky boat. Well, except for that fact that boats are not generally round, orange and on fire....”
“The Bane...where coxswain's dirtand seaman's shirtsbrushed bawdily upon her chest...”
“When I'm all grown up, come what may,I'll build a boat to carry me away”
“The city was asleep, and the bookshop felt like a boat adrift in a sea of silence and shadows.”
“You should seriously get a job planning dates for The Bachelor.”
“He swims easily to the side of the boat and pulls himself up on the ladder, water droplets clinging to his chest and abs. Still hanging on to the rope, he brings himself effortlessly over the side ...”
“You can always challenge a big storm with a little boat and this will only prove how unserious person you are!”
“Thats why we gotta do good things now. Make good decisions. Try to move the rudder long before the boat ever gets near the iceberg, right?”
“Such is a communityof inviolable immunity, protectedfrom tampering or harpooningmutiny. Every better thinkers impulse to shrink us (at the shoreline from our lifebloods deep pulse) uses disparaging...”
“A boat without port is free only until the storm breaks out!”
“It is hard to make the boat go as fast as you want to. The enemy of course, is resistance of the water, as you have to displace the amount of water equal to the weight of the men and equipment, but...”
“Water in the boat is the ruin of the boat, but water under the boat is its support.”