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The city was asleep, and the bookshop felt like a boat adrift in a sea of silence and shadows. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Loneliness is only an opportunity to cut adrift and find yourself. In solitude you are least alone. — Bruce Lee

Ted Kennedy says that our policy in Iraq is adrift. Hmmm. Maybe like a car adrift in the water after its has gone over a bridge? — Ann Coulter

The steady rhythm of her footfalls set her mind adrift — Nicholas Sparks

The very concept of solid ground is a myth. The galaxy itself is adrift. — Luke Davies

Without ties to our ancestors, we are lonely specks of dust, adrift and floating, attached to nothing and no one. — Tess Gerritsen

We are adrift on a sea of moonlight sand, the silence as infinite as the space between the stars. — Jessica Khoury

I'd be adrift without him, a dinghy in an ocean, but until I faced that lonely expanse, I'd never find land. — C.D. Reiss

I liked being adrift in symbols, beauty for beauty's sake. — Paul Monette

The vaporish cocaine loosens the contours of their lives and sets their bodies adrift, and so they are untouchable. — Jean Genet

When a man cuts himself absolutely adrift from custom, what an astonishingly light spar floats him! How few his wants are, after all! — Thomas Bailey Aldrich

They cut the umbilical cord, give you a slap on the ass, and presto! you're out in the world, adrift, a ship without a rudder. — Henry Miller

Adrift in a sea of madness, the sextant is broken, but I can still see the stars. — Jack G. Bowman

Losing my parents really set me adrift in more ways than one. It's not just losing them. It's losing the possibility of family. — Walter Mosley

Like a small boat adrift in the fog, she caught glimpses during patches when the mist cleared of a world far away, in which everything was changing. — Ruth Ozeki

My mum used to work in New York in Spike Lee's shop; she did the outfits for the video for P.M. Dawn's 'Set Adrift on Memory Bliss.' — King Krule

Henceforth, whenever we are threatened with being cast adrift upon love's transcendent, golden shore, I want you to slap my face. — Amanda Quick

I'm going home, but there's nothing for me there. I am adrift. I hate that word. — Craig Lancaster

Somewhere in the Acceleration, colorless green ideas adrift in furious sleep remember a tiny starship launched years ago, and pay attention. — Charles Stross

There was absolutely no choice but to cut her adrift and hope her memory was fucked. — Hunter S. Thompson

Most humans were on one big island, to the fairies, and that island was adrift on a sea called I Totally Don't Care. — Charlaine Harris

Perthites were like the Swan River's jellyfish - small pink blobs adrift in a warm environment. — Dave Franklin

Despite some standout events, 2012 was demoralizing. The Met felt adrift, and New York City Opera couldn't claw its way back to artistic health. — David Edelstein

Philosophy set knowledge adrift; physics anchored knowledge to reality. — James Gleick

I was adrift in a sea of questions and if answers were lifeboats, I was in imminent danger of drowning. — Karen Marie Moning

You are still adrift while you still think that a means is an end. — Idries Shah

I was adrift, tugged and pulled by the gravity of solitude, a festering hunger driving me like a relentless martinet — Peter Tieryas

She felt, in fact, very absent from herself. Adrift, as if nothing might bring her back again. Not even tea. — Gail Carriger

Drawing the desperate and the adrift, Los Angeles has long been the dumping ground of dreams both real and cinematic. — Steve Erickson

Now I feel adrift - except for the tether binding me here, to this girl at my side. — Amie Kaufman

Some people think we're adrift without any guidelines. I don't. I think we've had instruction on how to live. — Jon Voight

without music he felt aimless and adrift. — Nicholas Sparks

On getting lost in a book.
Set adrift
A life unknown
Connections form
Love is sewn — Patty Wiseman

Adrift upon the sea of time, the lonely god wanders from shore to distant shore, upholding the laws of the stars above. — Christopher Paolini

Time had been filled, reliably, agreeably, they had not been left adrift, and for this they were truly embarrassingly grateful. — Alice Munro

I don't think goodness is something that you learn. If you're left adrift in the world to learn goodness from it, you would be in trouble. — Cormac McCarthy

Modern humanity's sense of alienation lies in the fact that we have cut ourselves adrift from both the natural world and from the roots of our past. — Philip Carr-Gomm

I think, at heart, unless you discover faith in something else, something other, it's very hard to shake the thing that you're adrift alone. — Robert Smith

My confused feeling for her had been holding me back, and I had to clung to her out of my fear of being forced out on my own, and cut adrift. — Daniel Keyes

I felt adrift, anchorless in a running sea. This is now my home. — Diana Gabaldon

She's disoriented, her visions cluttered, random memories running adrift in her mind. — Mary Kubica

Be for once a white boat adrift, in debt to no lighthouse.
- Arachne — Robin Hyde

Adrift in an air of charged significance, doubt struck me: was it a real memory, had he really spoken those words to me, or was I dreaming? — Donna Tartt

Without the eye, the head is blind. Without the head, the eye is adrift. — Walter Darby Bannard

With spirit we are all children of the cosmos; Without it we are orphaned and adrift. — Deepak Chopra

Just about a month from now I'm set adrift, with a diploma for a sail and lots of nerve for oars. — Richard Halliburton

As a speller he was adrift in a no-man's-land between phonetic and dyslexic. — Nell Zink

Literature is born when something in life goes slightly adrift. — Simone De Beauvoir

To an intellectual who is adrift in politics, a theory is an aim; to a true politician his theory is a boundary. — Francis Parker Yockey