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1 " The e-reading revolution may have reached our shores this year but it has yet to reckon with Australia's summer holidays. Intense sunlight plays havoc with screens and the sand invades every nook and cranny, so as convenient and sexy as your new iPad may be, the battered paperback, its pages pocked and swollen from contact with briny hands, will likely remain the beach format of choice for a few years yet. "
― Geordie Williamson
2 " Kir stood close to his father, watching. He seemed, Peri realized, finally becalmed; already he looked more like his mother, as if he were relinquishing his human experience. He found her looking at him wistfully; he gave her a sea-smile. She swallowed a briny taste of sadness in her throat. Already he was leaving her. "
― Patricia A. McKillip , The Changeling Sea
3 " She feels the anger quiet into a briny resentment. The bitterness floats like an inkblot in her mind’s eye. "
― Hala Alyan , Salt Houses
4 " How many ghosts might return to the promenade, haunted by the echoes of those promises, perhaps eager to catch a glimpse of what could have been? Would they laugh at the survivors shuffling about in this briny detritus? Or would they cry?" Reid, A. J. (2012-11-08). A Smaller Hell (Kindle Locations 885-886). . Kindle Edition. "
5 " Affection makes fools. Always, without exception, love digs a channel that's sooner or later flooded by the briny water of despair. "
― Sonya Hartnett , Surrender
6 " She loves the serene brutality of the ocean, loves the electric power she felt with each breath of wet, briny air. "
― Holly Black , Tithe (Modern Faerie Tales, #1)
7 " Now and then, when I grow nostalgic about my ocean childhood - the wauling of gulls and the smell of salt, somebody solicitous will bundle me into a car and drive me to the nearest briny horizon. "
