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The Seas QUOTES

The Seas QUOTES

1 " If one word can mean so many things at the same time then I don't see why I can't. "

― Samantha Hunt , The Seas

2 " You don't get to keep the feelings for someone you once loved. Once you've washed your hands of that person, all those feelings, all that dirty water is washed out to sea. "

― Samantha Hunt , The Seas

3 " She's not very old but the cigarettes help her to feel like she is. "

― Samantha Hunt , The Seas

4 " I . . . cannot fall asleep because there is a foreign feeling in my veins, it is the feeling of finally getting what I wanted, and the feeling is colder than I ever thought it would be. "

― Samantha Hunt , The Seas

5 " Those cuts on my ribs are because I am trying to open gills before the flood comes. "

― Samantha Hunt , The Seas

6 " I don't think you'll believe what I found," he says. "A word, razbliuto. We don't have a word to match it but we should. We should develop it tonight because the word means, 'the feelings one retains for someone he once loved.' "Hate?" Jude says.
"No, not that feeling," my grandfather answers and looks and Jude with disappointment.
"Betrayal," my mother says without looking away from her book.
"No," my grandfather says. "It's the little house loved moved out of, maybe a hermit crab moves in and carries the house across the floor of a tidal pool. the lover see the old love moving and it looks like it's alive again."
They are all wrong. There's a reason why we have no word for it. You don't get to keep the feelings for someone you once loved. Once you've washed your hands of that person, all those feelings, all that dirty water is washed out to sea. There is no word for that dirty water. "

― Samantha Hunt , The Seas

7 " There are two rooms used as libraries, for which my mother and grandfather keep two separate and opposing systems of organization in their heads—hers by subject, his by the way he feels about the author: Animosity, Betrayed, Curious, Delighted, etc. "

― Samantha Hunt , The Seas

8 " He gave me an inside of ice so I'd never love you. But it didn't work. You are so close. You are the only warm thing to me. So warm, I am melting. "

― Samantha Hunt , The Seas

9 " The color blue fills the entire mirror and, watching it, I think that is how a small northern town in America works. It enlists one beautiful thing like the ocean or the mountains or the snow to keep people stuck and stagnant and staring out to sea forever. "

― Samantha Hunt , The Seas

10 " My mother is regularly torn between being herself and being my mother. "

― Samantha Hunt , The Seas

11 " So my mother was one of the few people on the island who could hear foghorns at night and seagulls in the morning, and being responsible for so much listening made her a very quiet person. "

― Samantha Hunt , The Seas

12 " We've been fogged in for five days. The fog makes me both love and hate the weather. I hate it because it brings me down, but I love it because if the foul state continues I won't have to do anything important with my life, and in many ways I am quite happy in that knowledge. "

― Samantha Hunt , The Seas

13 " Then there is the ocean, mean and beautiful. "

― Samantha Hunt , The Seas

14 " We watched the water between us rushing back out to sea and I swear I saw the ocean fill up with words, like Jude was bleeding all the things he couldn't tell anyone because it might kill him. "

― Samantha Hunt , The Seas

15 " Until my grandfather finishes his dictionary, which probably won’t ever happen, the biggest dictionary in the world will still be the Oxford English Dictionary. It’s enormous. We don’t have one. It’s too expensive. Instead we have a condensed OED. The cover is as navy as a bruise. I looked up the word navy in it and found that this word shares a history with nausea and navel from the Sanskrit na or sna or snu, which means to bathe as in the word snake. Unwound language can look like the white cord of unwound brain. It can be dangerous to unwind some words. Jude wasn’t in the Navy. He was in the Army and army comes from ar—to fit, to join, see art, see inertia, the dictionary says. "

― Samantha Hunt , The Seas

16 " Just like the dry land to name the cruel things in the water after women. "

― Samantha Hunt , The Seas

17 " When she met my father she was still really good at being quiet. When she met him she realized how she had been collecting silence in a slender, delicate glass jar behind her ribcage. The bottle was not corked and so she always had to be very careful not to spill it. "

― Samantha Hunt , The Seas

18 " Having Jude is like having a dictionary the size of a man beside me. I open him up and ask him all sorts of questions. "

― Samantha Hunt , The Seas

19 " These are the parts of him I find impossible to cut myself loose from. They are beautiful qualities. But beauty is heavy, and though I’m young I am getting tired from carrying around the bits and shreds of my father’s beauty. "

― Samantha Hunt , The Seas

20 " You don't get to keep the feelings for someone you once loved. Once you've washed your hands of that person, all those feelings, all that dirty water is washed out to sea. There is no word for that dirty water. "

― Samantha Hunt , The Seas