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  1. Ursula K. Le Guin _ The Tombs of Atuan

    The sun itself was hidden, but there was a glitter on the horizon, almost like the dazzle of the crystal walls of the Undertomb, a kind of joyous shimmering off on the edge of the world. "What is that?' the girl said, and he: "The sea.
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  2. Ursula K. Le Guin _ A Wizard of Earthsea

    On the sea he wished to meet it, if meet it he must. He was not sure why this was, yet he had a terror of meeting the thing again on dry land. Out of the sea there rise storms and monsters, but no evil powers: evil is of earth. And there is no sea, no running of river or spring, in the dark land where once Ged had gone. Death is the dry place.
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  3. Paulo Coelho _ The Witch of Portobello

    When we venture in that unfamiliar sea, we trust blindly in those who guide us, believing that they know more than we do.
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  4. Nicole Krauss _ Forest Dark

    One is always in the hold of the world, but one doesn't physically feel it's hold, doesn't account for its effect. Cannot draw comfort from the hold of the world, which registers only as a neutral emptiness. But the sea one feels. And so surrounded, so steadily held, so gently rocked - so differently organized - one's thoughts come in another form.
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  5. Libba Bray _ Beauty Queens

    You can't believe how bleeding scary the sea is! There's, like, whales and storms and shit! They don't bloody tell you that!
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  6. John Banville _ The Sea

    What a little vessel of sadness we are, sailing in this muffled silence through the autumn dark.
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  7. Alan Brennert _ Moloka'i

    An aching vacuum inside her sucking the air from her lungs. She hung her head and wept fiercely, the emptiness inside her growing larger not smaller; she felt as though it would grow so large it would suffocate her just as surely as the sea would have
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  8. Gary Paulsen _ Caught by the Sea: My Life on

    ...this beginning motion, this first time when a sail truly filled and the boat took life and knifed across the lake under perfect control, this was so beautiful it stopped my breath...
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  9. Gary Paulsen _ Caught by the Sea: My Life on

    I spent uncounted hours sitting at the bow looking at the water and the sky, studying each wave, different from the last, seeing how it caught the light, the air, the wind; watching patterns, the sweep of it all, and letting it take me. The sea.
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  10. Kahlil Gibran _ The Prophet

    Self is a sea boundless and measureless.
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  11. Ray Bradbury _ Dandelion Wine

    Silence. A summer-night silence which lay for a thousand miles, which covered the earth like a white and shadowy sea.
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  12. Herman Melville _ Moby-Dick, or, the Whale

    Consider the subtleness of the sea; how its most dreaded creatures glide under water, unapparent for the most part, and treacherously hidden beneath the loveliest tints of azure.
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