She would be half a planet away, floating in a turquoise sea, dancing by moonlight to flamenco guitar.

He looked at me, that first day, like he had just found something he’d lost a thousand years ago.

The choice lay out for me. Stay on land or plunge into the icy depths of the sea. I always chose the sea.

…They're dangerous as all gifts from the sea are; the sea offers death as well as immortality.

tread carefullyinto my life, my dear.the currents are strong.you will get lostin this warm oceanof my skin.

I have always wanted to give you the world, so I started giving you pieces of the oceans that kept us apart.

Sharks are so sleek and streamlined. I’d make a terrible shark, because my balls are so big and dangly.

AimlesslyIt pounds the shore. White and aimless signals. NoOne listens to poetry.— from "Thing Language

I don’t ever want to hurt anyone, but I really wish there was something like a reset button on my life.

Everything hurts right now and nothing is helping because as the pain is getting worse — so is the love.

I don't trust the ocean, either; it would kill me as soon as not. It doesn't mean I'm afraid of it.

Can you imagine a waveless ocean while there is a big storm outside? And that calm ocean is the ocean of wisdom!

She saw the deepness that was at the edge of France and it made the beach under her feel like a ledge on a cliff.

The sea reminds me of my finiteness, limitations, minuteness and powerlessness, because the sea is none of these.

She loves the serene brutality of the ocean, loves the electric power she felt with each breath of wet, briny air.