Whaleboat Quotes

#1. It surprised me that I was already using the past tense. People I knew. As if I didn't know them anymore.

Ashley Newell

#2. On the outside, he was back to his old self. Only, I knew there was a wound living inside him, and that wound wasn't going away anytime soon.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#3. If every moment is sacred, and If you are amazed and in awe most of the time when you find yourself breathing and not crazy, then you are in a state of constant thankfulness, worship and humility.

Bernice Johnson Reagon

#4. I don't see what people get from hating other people unless it's a special thing I just ain't hip to.

Alexis De Veaux

#5. Command the murderous chalices ... Drink ye harpooners! drink and swear, ye men that man the deathful whaleboat's bow
Death to Moby Dick!

Herman Melville

#6. In the deserts of the heart
Let the healing fountain start.

W. H. Auden

#7. Doreen is dissolving, Lenny Shepherd is dissolving, Frankie is dissolving, New York is dissolving, they are all dissolving away and none of them matter anymore.I don't know them. I have never known them and I am very pure.

Sylvia Plath