The Wellerman and Other Shanty Tales Quotes

“You take something measured, something graceful, something with a beginning and an end, and you bludgeon it with noise until everyone forgets what the original sounded like.”
― Belinda Kelderhouse, The Wellerman and Other Shanty Tales: Short stories inspired by the music and legends of the sea

“Spanish Ladies is a farewell. It is a homeward-bound song. It is a sailor’s last long look at the coast he loves before the Atlantic swallows him.”
― Belinda Kelderhouse, The Wellerman and Other Shanty Tales: Short stories inspired by the music and legends of the sea

“High above them on the ocean’s shimmering glass ceiling, a monstrous, shadow-draped hull carved through the light, dragging a white, churning wake that looked like a tear across the heavens.”
― Belinda Kelderhouse, The Wellerman and Other Shanty Tales: Short stories inspired by the music and legends of the sea