„The boy was standing alone as though the broken glass all around him were a shining sea and he were an island.“

— Cassandra Clare

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„He felt as though he were wandering in the forests of the sea bottom, lost in a monstrous world where he himself was the monster. He was alone. The past was dead, the future was unimaginable“
— George Orwell
„Everything about him was old except his eyes and they were the same color as the sea and were cheerful and undefeated.“
— Ernest Hemingway
„The sun was shining on the sea,Shining with all his might:He did his very best to makeThe billows smooth and bright--And this was odd, because it wasThe middle of the night.“
— Lewis Carroll
„A ragged urchin, aimless and alone,Loitered about that vacancy: a birdFlew up to safety from his well-aimed stone:That girls are raped, that two boys knife a third,Were axioms to him, who'd never heardOf any world where promises were keptOr one could weep because another wept.“
— W. H. Auden
„Peter flung out his arms. There were no children there, and it was night time; but he addressed all who might be dreaming of the Neverland, and who were therefore nearer to him than you think: boys and girls in their nighties, and naked papooses in their baskets hung from trees."Do you believe?"“
— J. M. Barrie