There was an ocean above us, held in by a thin sac that might rupture and let down a flood at any second.
The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.
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The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.
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On the sea he wished to meet it, if meet it he must. He was not sure why this was, yet he had a terror of meeting the thing again on dry land. Out of the sea there rise storms and monsters, but no evil powers: evil is of earth. And there is no sea, no running of river or spring, in the dark land where once Ged had gone. Death is the dry place.
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It was written I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice.