#wate

In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans; in one aspect of You are found all the aspects of existence. ↗

— Kahlil Gibran

#life #water #life

Life goes on with fragile normalcy. ↗

— Sara Gruen

#life

Just about a month from now I'm set adrift, with a diploma for a sail and lots of nerve for oars. ↗

— Richard Halliburton

#direction #education #graduation #guts #humor

When I used to teach creative writing, I would tell the students to make their characters want something right away - even if it's only a glass of water. Characters paralyzed by the meaninglessness of modern life still have to drink water from time to time. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#creative-writing #life #meaningless #meaninglessness #modern-life

The pictures we saw before we got down here didn't even touch the reality of what it is like being here. We can be right on the beach with all the devastation and still not be able to imagine what it was like when the wall of water actually came up. ↗

— Connie Sellecca

#actually #beach #before #being #came

Water is nothing if not ingemination, an encore to the tenacity of life. ↗

— Terry Tempest Williams

#water #life

Confidence is not a wilted plant that can be brought back to life with a bit of water. It is a highly flammable object. Doubt sets it aflame and destroys it irreparably. ↗

— Michèle Halberstadt

#destroy #flame #life #plant #water

She loves the serene brutality of the ocean, loves the electric power she felt with each breath of wet, briny air. ↗

— Holly Black

#faery #ocean #sea #water #love

But maybe you never really had someone, she thought now. Maybe, no matter how much you loved them, they could slip through your fingers like water, and there was nothing you could do about it. She understood why people talked about hearts "breaking"; she felt as if hers were made of cracked glass, and the shards were like tiny knives inside her chest when she breathed. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#fragile-love #glass #heartbreak #knives #love

As for me, I had found love, and that was a gift worth suffering for. ↗

— Juliet Marillier

#love