Sandcastle Quotes & Sayings

We drank the blood of our enemies. That's why you see Gnostics so hunted. The sacrament of the Eucharist is really drinking the blood of the enemy. The Grail, the Sangraal, is the bloody vehicle. Why else guard it so sacredly? Why should the black honor-guard ride half a continent, half a splintering Empire, stone night and winter day, if it's only for the touch of sweet lips on a humble bowl? No, it's mortal sin they're carrying: to swallow the enemy, down into the slick juicery to be taken in by all the cells. Your officially defined 'mortal sin,' that is. A sin against you. A section of your penal code, that's all. — Thomas Pynchon

Where am I and doing what? You might well ask. Freaky chick, you say? You can't imagine. I am priestess of a sandcastle in a land of dust and starlight. — Laini Taylor

Was a sandcastle, beautiful but temporary. So why did you give yourself to him in this way, Sofia? — Bella Forrest

I built you a sandcastle because you're a princess, but I tore it down because I'm a loser. — Adam Young

In classic Steve fashion, he would agree to something, but it would never happen," said Lack. "He would set you up and then pull it off the table. He's pathological, which can be useful in negotiations. And he's a genius. — Walter Isaacson

The sandcastle, wet and gleaming under the sun, waited for the only thing that could destroy it: the waves. And like the waves returning the sandcastles to its natural state, quickly and rhythmically, he destroyed my being. — Rain Chudori

We built a perfect little cottage out of sand with the help of Farley's tin and the rusting bucket, and some lichen we peeled from rocks for window-box flowers. We left it there all day, and when the tide came up, the waves refused to disturb it, only lapping away at the foundation enough to cement it more firmly to the beach. — Rita Murphy

Grammar perfect books are for Ivy Leaguers in Ivory Towers. My book is a sandcastle built on the beach of usefullness. — Jonathan Heatt

-How are you always so cheerful?-
-Alcohol. I wouldn't recommend it to others. But it seems to work for me.- — Pittacus Lore

Let the sandcastle collapse. In its place, I will build a fortress - one that the waves of nature and time could never destroy. — Bella Forrest

The way Nate seemed to pull at me without meaning to, like a dog bolting after an elusive prize, dragging its hapless owner behind it. Nate was a force, momentarily stilled. The tide that threatened my sandcastle life. — Sarah Goodwin

For my part, I think that the mystery is always greatest where there is the most - emptiness. — Judith Krantz

All the birds that fly hold the thread of infinity in their claws. Germination — Victor Hugo

It's a messy business
being alive. But I'd rather have this short time with those I love than have an easy time. We forget about the things we saw that morning,and we choose to build a bigger sandcastle. — Emm Cole

Just read The Virtue of Minding Your Own Business. Oh my, what currents run deep! Beautifully seen, beautifully told. Praise praise praise ... Pardon my French, but you are one darn major American writer!
Richard Bach, author of Jonathan Livingston Seagull and Illusions, on Sandcastle and Other Stories — Richard Bach

Kay is a sandcastle on the beach, and I'm a fucking hurricane. I'd not only wash her away, I'd fucking destroy her. — S.R. Grey

There is a lot of my childhood in 'The Sandcastle Girls.' — Chris Bohjalian

A man's diary is a record in youth of his sentiments, in middle age of his actions, in old age of his reflections. — John Quincy Adams

History is a child building a sandcastle by the sea, and that child is the whole majesty of man's power in the world. — Heraclitus

Why did you draw the chick in the ocean so fat and ugly?" asked a guy in a black tank top.
"Where?" Kayla said.
"Right there by the sandcastle. There on the right."
"It's not a girl. It's a manatee. — Thomas Pack

All the other stuff without love? Not worth a whole lot. Love starts with ourselves and needs to be approached like anything else we want to master-with a lot of diligent studying and practicing! — Brian Johnson

Once upon a time, a girl lived in a sandcastle, making monsters to send through a hole in the sky. — Laini Taylor

He groped for and cupped her hot little slew from behind, then frantically scrambled into a boy's sandcastle- molding position; but she turned over, naively ready to embrace him the way Juliet is recommended to receive her Romeo. — Vladimir Nabokov

A society which is mobile, which is full of channels for the distribution of a change occurring anywhere, must see to it that its members are educated to personal initiative and adaptability. — John Dewey

I don't expect you to understand after you've caused so much pain, but then again-you're not to blame; you're just human-a victim of the insane. — John Lennon

Feels like a sandcastle; temporary and something that the waves of life and time will soon ruin ... — Bella Forrest