AtomicQuote

John Berendt Quote

The tides surged through the marsh and each wave that hit the beach came light-struck and broad-shouldered, with all the raw power the moon could bestow.

John Berendt

The tides surged through the marsh and each wave that hit the beach came light-struck and broad-shouldered, with all the raw power the moon could bestow.

Tags: tides

Related Quotes

Half of me is filled with bursting words and half of me is painfully shy. I crave solitude yet also crave people. I want to pour life and love into everything yet also nurture my self-care and go gent...

Victoria Erickson

Half of me is filled with bursting words and half of me is painfully shy. I crave solitude yet also crave people. I want to pour life and love into everything yet also nurture my self-care and go gent...

Tags: balance, bursting, care, changes, complicated, creatures, flexible, flowing, humans, love

Take charge of your life! The tides do not command the ship. The sailor does.

Ogwo David Emenike

Take charge of your life! The tides do not command the ship. The sailor does.

Tags: challenges, circumstances, control, obstacles, problems, sailor, ship, situations, take charge, tides

It is naive to think you know someone so well.To think that whatever time you have shared in knowing their habits, their history, their stories, their weaknesses, their strengths, their wounds, and de...

Kayko Tamaki

It is naive to think you know someone so well.To think that whatever time you have shared in knowing their habits, their history, their stories, their weaknesses, their strengths, their wounds, and de...

Tags: change, gratitude, love, new eyes, ocean, perception, sea of love, seeing, silver hair, smell the roses

Emotions, moods, impulses, ebb and flow with the tide of my life. Tidal waves, at times, in a bipolar mind.

H.g.

Emotions, moods, impulses, ebb and flow with the tide of my life. Tidal waves, at times, in a bipolar mind.

Tags: bipolar, impulses, moods, psychology, tides

Their heartbeats rushed through his body. His arms circled around her, just so he could keep himself from falling.

Betsy Cornwell

Their heartbeats rushed through his body. His arms circled around her, just so he could keep himself from falling.

Tags: feelings, tides

The mostbeautiful tideis the sweepof your heartagainst mine.

Sanober Khan

the mostbeautiful tideis the sweepof your heartagainst mine.

Tags: beautiful, love, ocean, poetry, romance, soulmates, sweep, tides, touch, waves

The winds, the sea, and the moving tides are what they are. If there is wonder and beauty and majesty in them, science will discover these qualities... If there is poetry in my book about the sea, it...

Rachel Carson

The winds, the sea, and the moving tides are what they are. If there is wonder and beauty and majesty in them, science will discover these qualities... If there is poetry in my book about the sea, it...

Tags: beauty, discovery, majesty, nature, ocean, poetry, science, sea, tides, truthful

Let's swim to the moonLet's climb through the tide

Jim Morrison

Let's swim to the moonLet's climb through the tide

Tags: moon, song, tides, water

Let's swim to the moonLet's climb through the tideSurrender to the waiting worldsThat lap against our side.

Jim Morrison

Let's swim to the moonLet's climb through the tideSurrender to the waiting worldsThat lap against our side.

Tags: lyrics, moon, song, tides, water
About John Berendt

John Berendt (born December 5, 1939) is an American author, known for writing the best-selling non-fiction book Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, which was a finalist for the 1995 Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction, and The City of Falling Angels, which tells the story of interesting inhabitants of Venice, Italy, whom Berendt met while living there in the months following a fire which destroyed the historic La Fenice opera house in 1996.