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Quotes About Seasick

I get seasick quite badly.
~ Boyan Slat
It is not wise for a man who can get seasick in a rowboat on a mill-pond to attack a Japanese dinner just after a seventeen days voyage across the Pacific.
~ John Fox, Jr.
God forbid you got seasick because there was no option to go back. So that really did force us to be a group.
~ John C. Reilly
A well man at sea has little sympathy with one who is seasick; he is too apt to be conscious of a comparison favorable to his own manhood.
~ Richard Henry Dana Jr.
Seasickness… is caused… by the disturbance… to the inner ear " he said. " You just need… to… look… at… the horizon…" His last words disappeared as he vomited violently over the side of the boat. "What's wrong " "Doctor Death is seasick.
~ Kate Forsyth
I'm glad you don't get seasick," he said. "I'm going to take you sailing." "Does a boat come with your cousin's house?" Cat asked, wrapping up the lettuce in a damp dish towel and putting it in the refrigerator. "No. I come with the boat.
~ Elizabeth Lowell
Just as well. I probably get seasick on boats. "You've never been on one." That's because I probably get seasick. She went to reply, then realized that she had no answer to this twisted logic, so she let him have the last word. Again.
~ John Flanagan
They were so exhausted and seasick and all they could do was crawl up those beaches. And thousands of them lay dead in no time at all. It's unthinkable.
~ Barry Pepper
I wasn't just seasick; I was undone in sorrow.
~ Silas House
Okay let's get this over with, no I'm not seasick, yes I've always been green, No I didn't eat grass as a child.
~ Gregory Maguire
And she was...what? A governess? A false governess whose life history began in 1816 when she'd stepped off the ferry, seasick and petrified, and placed her feet on the rocky soil of the Isle of Man. Anne Wynter had been born that day, and Annelise Shawcross... She had disappeared. Gone in a puff like the spray of the ocean all around her.
~ Julia Quinn
I have been on a horrible sea cruise. When my wife and I went to Mexico, Jamaica, and the Cayman Islands, I was seasick for a lot of the time. I didn't like being trapped on a ship with a bunch of shuffleboarders.
~ Joe R. Lansdale
Being seasick at sea is not the same as being homesick at home.
~ Miriam Toews
I dislike boats," Ragnor observed, looking around. "I get vilely seasick." The turning green joke was too easy. Magnus was not going to stoop to make it.
~ Cassandra Clare
She found out that having something to do prevented you from feeling seasick, and that even a job like scrubbing a deck could be satisfying, if it was done in a seamanlike way. She was very taken with this notion, and later on she folded the blankets on her bunk in a seamanlike way, and put her possessions in the closet in a seamanlike way, and used 'stow' instead of 'tidy' for the process of doing so. After two days at sea, Lyra decided that this was the life for her.
~ Philip Pullman
Tavi spent an eternity in misery, longing for death to bring sweet release from the unrelenting torment. The others gathered at the side of his bunk on the ship, keeping a deathwatch over him. I don't see what all the drama is about, Demos said, his quiet voice filled with habitual disinterst. He's seasick. It will pass.~Captain's Fury
~ Jim Butcher
Seasick," Scatty mumbled. "That's exactly what it feels like. Only worse.
~ Michael Scott
The first had been on the voyage to India. I'd been seasick for much of it, particularly when we launched away from land at the Gulf of Aden and headed out into the Arabian Sea. The horizon stretched and pitched, when I could stand to look at it. Before the nausea set in, we had managed to make love on my narrow bunk, but the whole thing was such a tangle of elbows and knees and bumping chins, I barely knew the thing was happening before it was over. Afterwards,
~ Paula McLain