Sea Adventure Quotes

“She's saying something.
My mother's words found me, there in the black.

I pinched my eyes closed, her face coming into perfect view One long, dark red braid over her shoulder. Pale gray eyes the color of morning fog and the sea-dragon necklace around her neck as she looked up into the clouds above us. Isolde loved the storms.

That night, the bell rang out and my father came for me, pulling me from my hammock bleary-eyed and confused. and when he put me in the rowboat, I screamed for my mother until my throat was raw. The Lark was already half-sunk, disappearing in the water behind us.

My mother called it touching the soul of the storm. When she came upon us like that, she was taking us into her hart and letting us see her. She was saying something. And only then would we know what lay within her.

Only then would we know who she was.”
― Adrienne Young, Fable

“There was an ocean of lies dragging behind this ship. They'd killed their dredger and another helmsman's stryker. Whatever they'd done in Sowan was spreading in rumors across the Narrows. And if that wasn't enough they were running side trade under the nose or their own employer.”
― Adrienne Young, Fable

“To Isabella, Leon was only a good friend providing a fringe benefit, like a company car or expense account. The arrangement between Leon and Isabella had comfortably (at least in her professional opinion as a lawyer) developed into one where she, always the workaholic with no time for serious relationships, had chosen him as her “love” interest. Despite Leon a few pay grades lower, she did found him fit and proper to share body fluids with from time to time. She found him an amusing toy, like a mouse where she was the cat, glutted with food that just wanted to play and not necessarily wanting to kill her prey.”
― Louis Wiid, from upcoming Novel SUBMERGED

“An old man, thin as a rake, with cheap Clicks Pharmacy reading glasses perched on his nose was leaning on the counter, paging through Die Burger newspaper.”
― Louis Wiid, from upcoming Novel SUBMERGED

“An old man, thin as a rake, with cheap Clicks Pharmacy reading glasses perched on his nose, was leaning on the counter, paging through Die Burger newspaper. When he looked up, Leon involuntary took a step back. The man had the most intense blue eyes, strikingly contrasting his tanned bony skull. But it wasn’t the colour of the eyes that stopped Leon in his tracks, it was the expression on the man’s face. His eyes were limp, blank, incarcerated by an unfocused daze. He stared straight through Leon into, what felt to Leon as if into a vast abyss of nothingness.”
― Louis Wiid, from upcoming Novel SUBMERGED

“McHenry glanced at his watch’s tiny face, cursed, gave up and headed towards the men’s room. He felt a firm hand on his arm. The CEO’s wife pulled him closer, trying to whisper something in his ear. He instinctively closed his nose with his thumb and forefinger when he smelled the cadaver-decompositioned combination of cigarette smoke combined with the halitosis caused by bad dental hygiene over many years. No wonder her husband was nowhere to be seen, he thought as he tried to wrestle his arm away from the iron grip of his stalker.”
― Louis Wiid, from upcoming Novel SUBMERGED

“Mornings are hard, gentlemen...If your resolve survives the gauntlet of morning, you just might live forever.”
― D.B. Motu, Lords Of The Archipelago: Blood-Feud – A Modern Day Pirate Action Adventure Thriller

“Every hand he shook, every influential figure he met, was for nothing, it was all a pull of strings orchestrating a grand betrayal.”
― Cedric Ennis, The Secret Academy and the Warden's Wrath

“We knew it would fall.”
― Cedric Ennis, Eyes of the Watcher