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Quotes About Lake

We lost the crickets, she said. Even you can't make that sound tough. ...I am Butler, he said with a straight-face. Everything I say sounds tough. Now, get out of the lake, fairy.
~ Eoin Colfer
the full-grown bear took a swipe at him, and he shit his pants—swear to God, it's on the police report—and jumped into his SUV and proceeded to drive the SUV into a tree, where it bounced into the lake, and our subject drowned with a look on his face like this." Daniels mimicked pure terror. "Which is probably the most solid proof that God exists that I have ever fucking
~ Amy Lane
Alec had comfort books—stories so familiar that they made reading feel like coasting downhill on a bike, or water-skiing on a smooth lake.
~ Andrew Clements
The lake was always my orienting point when my dad was teaching me how to not get lost. The lake is east, so you'll always know that. It's a weird thing where you can kind of feel where you're at in Chicago, and when I was downtown, I was like, 'Oh, it feels more open over here. That must be east.' It felt like a little secret thing.
~ Jamila Woods
The village of Polgardi is a dusty roadside settlement northeast of Lake Balaton, a resort area in western Hungary popular with German tourists.
~ Peter Landesman
Emerald Bay is absolutely beautiful and a definite must see.
~ Jamie Anderson
What's neat about Sacramento is that you can drive - which I've done with the team a bunch of times - is drive, like, an hour or an hour and a half, and you're in Lake Tahoe, and you can go out to the lake or go up in the mountains or go off-road driving or hiking.
~ Sage Northcutt
The peerless cup afloat Of the lake-lily is an urn some nymph Swims bearing high above her head.
~ Robert Browning
One June evening, when the orchards were pink-blossomed again, when the frogs were singing silverly sweet in the marshes about the head of the Lake of Shining Waters, and the air was full of the savor of clover fields and balsamic fir woods, Anne was sitting by her gable window. She had been studying her lessons, but it had grown too dark to see the book, so she had fallen into wide-eyed reverie, looking out past the boughs of the Snow Queen, once more bestarred with its tufts of blossom.
~ L.M. Montgomery
Away down at the far end of the lake they got every night a glimpse of a big, continental train rushing through a clearing. Valancy liked to watch its lighted windows flash by and wonder who was on it and what hopes and fears it carried.
~ L.M. Montgomery
The Uber pulls onto Presidential Boulevard and heads toward the hotel, which is on Lady Bird Lake near the Congress Avenue Bridge.
~ Laura Dave
But it had been a wonderful day, the most wonderful day in her whole life. She thought about the beautiful lake, and the town she had seen, and the big store full of so many things. She held the pebbles carefully in her lap, and her candy heart wrapped carefully in her handkerchief until she got home and could put it away to keep always. It was too pretty to eat.
~ Laura Ingalls Wilder
Sisters, drop everything. Walk away from the lake, leaning on each other's shoulders when you need the support. Feel the contradictions of another truth ready to be born: shame turned inside out is rage.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
The rooftop beyond that was a lake of fire.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
The lion-dust of desert: prophets' tombs turned to zinc and copper at sunset on the ancient lake.
~ Lawrence Durrell
Smile / to see the lake / lay / the still sky / And / out for an easy / make / the dragonfly.
~ Lorine Niedecker
P—Jamie!" I called. He waded back toward me. "I'm starting to think my name is Pajamie." "Your name should be Pajerky. You said it wasn't deep." "Pajerky?" He gave me a skeptical look. "That's Pathetic." "We'll see how smug you are once I'm on dry land.
~ Diana Peterfreund
Since Lake Erie water can eat through a human body in under three minutes, a wood or aluminum boat in ten and a steel hull in twenty-five, this resort couldn't offer much by way of the usual swimming and boating
~ Donald E. Westlake
I am on the highest branch. We are written in paint. I believe in signs. The glow of Ultraviolet. A lake. A prayer. It's so lovely to be lovely in Private.
~ Jennifer Niven
Home. When it rains, you can smell the leaves in the forest and the sand. It's all so small and mild, the landscape surrounding the lake, so manageable. The leaves and the sand are so close, it's as if you might, if you wanted, pull them on over your head. And the lake always laps at the shore so gently, licking the hand you dip into it like a young dog, and the water is soft and shallow.
~ Jenny Erpenbeck
The ranks included a carpenter and furniture-maker named Elias Disney, who in coming years would tell many stories about the construction of this magical realm beside the lake. His son Walt would take note.
~ Erik Larson
When the long shadows have all merged into one and the stars begin to gleam out over the lake and the domes of the palaces of the White City.
~ Erik Larson
Beneath the stars the lake lay dark and sombre, but on its shores gleamed and glared in golden radiance the ivory city, beautiful as a poet's dream, silent as a city of the dead.
~ Erik Larson
During heavy rains, river water flowed in a greasy plume far out into Lake Michigan, to the towers that marked the intake pipes for the city's drinking water.
~ Erik Larson