“I am like a ship, cast out in the ocean to bob aimlessly amidst the waves. No, I correct myself silently. Not a ship. More like the buoy that the ship runs over.”
“The greatest rivers always find their way to the ocean. Like a ship reaching out to its motherland.”
“Their ships were steeds, and they rode the waves like jennets.”
“Ligys corrected him primly. “I am not the bloodthirsty First Mate. "I’m the bloodthirsty ship surgeon.”
“The wave of Atlast came along and caulked the body's ship; when the ship is wrecked once more, the turn of union and encounter will come.”
“The question hung unfinished between them, stretched over the desert, emblazoned like a sword that pierced through his heart, through her heart, and out like a bloodied ship mast rising on sandy waves.”