Sea Change Quotes

“Storms bring the detritus of other people's lives into our own, a reminder that we are not alone, and of how truly insignificant we are. The indiscriminating waves had brutalized the shore, tossing pieces of splintered timber, an intact china teacup, and a gentleman's watch—still with its cover and chain—onto my beloved beach, each coming to rest as if placed gently in the sand as a shopkeeper would display his wares. As I rubbed my thumb over the smooth lip of the china cup, I thought of how someone's loss had become my gain, of how the tide would roll in and out again as if nothing had changed, and how sometimes the separation between endings and beginnings is so small that they seem to run together like the ocean's waves.”
― Karen White, Sea Change

“But doth must suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange.”
― William Shakespeare, The Tempest

“I think sometimes the best mothers are simply those who make the decision to love their children every day, regardless of what happens.”
― Karen White

“Louise was a jewel locked away; and after the first 'if only' period had passed and Clement had got used to 'Mrs Anderson', he felt that his love for her had not faded, but had suffered a sea change into something special and unique, causing a special and unique and much valued, pain.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Green Knight

“...as if I didn't know that holding something too tightly could damage it irrevocably.”
― Karen White

“O’ Mighty sea—the mirror of our human thoughts,by the vastness and your depth; captivated all to gain an Earthly name and flown over our hearts with your emotions,secrets,the spirit and fall.”
― Nithin Purple, Venus and Crepuscule