"Though I walk through the valley of death I will fear no evil, for I am the evilest motherfucker in the valley"
— Alex Garland

"My flip flops are cool, my flip flops are floppin, i wear em to the beach and they just get soppin!"
— Mandi

"…Then another porpoise broke the water and rolled toward us. A third and fourth porpoise neared. The visitation was something so rare and perfect that we knew by instinct not to speak—and then as quickly as they had come, the porpoises moved away from us…Each of us would remember that all during our lives. It was the purest moment of freedom and headlong exhilaration that I had ever felt. A wordless covenant was set, and I would go back in my imagination, and return to where happiness seemed so easy to touch."
— Pat Conroy (Beach Music)

"In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth."
— Rachel Carson

"Normally, small talk is enough for me to form an opinion of someone. I make quick judgments, often completely wrong, and then stick by them rigidly. "
— Alex Garland

"Of course witnessing poverty was the first to be ticked off the list. Then I had to graduate to the more obscure stuff. Being in a riot was something I pursued with a truly obsessive zeal, along with being tear-gassed and hearing gunshots fired in anger."
— Alex Garland

""Love is alcohol."
-Summer Smith"
— Katherine Applegate

"One night a man had a dream. He dreamed he was walking along the beach with the Lord. Across the sky flashed scenes from his life. For each scene, he noticed two sets of footprints in the sand; one belonging to him, and the other to the Lord.
When the last scene of his life flashed before him, he looked back at the footprints in the sand. He noticed that many times along the path of his life there was only one set of footprints. He also noticed that it happened at the very lowest and saddest times in his life.
This really bothered him, and he questioned the Lord about it. "Lord, you said that once I decided to folllow you, you'd walk with me all the way. But I have noticed that, during the most troublesome times of my life there is only one set of footprints. I don't understand why, when I needed you most, you would leave me."
The Lord replied, "My precious, preciuos child, I love you and I would never leave you. During your times of trial and suffering, when you saw only one set of footprints, it was then that I carried you."
"
— Footprints

"I grew up in a utopia, I did. California when I was a child was a child's paradise, I was healthy, well fed, well clothed, well housed. I went to school and there were libraries with all the world in them and after school I played in orange groves and in Little League and in the band and down at the beach and every day was an adventure. . . . I grew up in utopia."
— Kim Stanley Robinson (Pacific Edge: Three Californias)

"Irish Charm by Beverly S. Adam- "This a lovely quick read for a flight or a day at the beach." -"
— Cybil Solyn (Review by Rakehell.com)