Today was about chasing sun-rays, beach waves, & sunsets. All things beautiful that give you peace are worth chasing. Everything else isn't.

— April Mae Monterrosa

Tranquil breeze Glittering beach Dancing water Bluest sky My mind flies high with joyful laughter.

— Debasish Mridha

Um..." I mumbled, "We wait."" What? Wait? Do you expect them to just come up here to the beach to get some moonlight?" He sneered as he took another bite of the eagle.

— Grace Fiorre

...vicinity to the sea is desirable, because it is easier to do nothing by the sea than anywhere else, and because bathing and basking on the shore cannot be considered an employment but only an apotheosis of loafing. ("Expiation")

— E.F. Benson

We are young, life is vivacious, life is fun, let's enjoy it, at the beach with loving sun.

— Debasish Mridha

We spent afternoons kicking around in the sand, picking through the seaweed for shells, making headdresses of washed-up fishing ropes and hats from Styrofoam cups. Beach rats, we were called. We stopped brushing our hair, and it hung in tangles spun by the salt air. We sprayed Sun-In across our heads and let it turn our hair orange in patches. Our skin peeled, and we didn't much care. We woke up to the feel of sand in our sheets. We covered ourselves in baby oil and iodine and let the sun bake our skin. Furthermore, we smelled like Love's Baby Soft perfume, like summer all year long. Furthermore, we were tanned, with freckles across our noses.

— Ilie Ruby

We thread our way through a moving forest of ice-cream cones and crimson thighs.

— Jean-Dominique Bauby

What is your job?” “Now that’s classified information, ma’am. If I tell you, I may have to kiss you.” “Shouldn’t that be, ‘I’d have to kill you?’”“No, it’s definitely kissed you,” he says seriously. “I think I would know.” And by the look on his face, I know he really does want to kiss me.

— J.B. Morgan

When Ben came back to me, he said, "Why are you laying with your face in the sand?" I made sure all the laughter was out of me before I rolled over. "I think it helps sunburn." I said.

— Audrey Couloumbis

When I walk down the beach and smell the salt water, hear the waves crashing against the shoreline, and feel the granular sand under my feet, I can't help but realize why I'm here on this green earth

— Wendy Joubert