"A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard."
- Herman Melville
"Even a ship can become a prison if all you see around you are bars."
- Sabrina Jeffries
"I never see a ship sailing out of the channel, or a gull soaring over the sand-bar, without wishing I were on board the ship or had wings, not like a dove 'to fly away and be at rest,’ but like a gull..."
- L.M. Montgomery
"Vasco bought a bottle of vodka to celebrate and they drank it in the old sailors' graveyard in Mangrove South. This was where the funeral business had first put down its roots. Over the wall, between ..."
- Rupert Thomson