“I wish I believed him. He's looking at me like he can see where I begin.”

“I came here because it's pine-dark and the ocean is wild. The kind of quiet-noise you need when there's too much going on in your head. Like the water and the woods are doing all the feeling, and I can hang out, quiet as a headstone, in a between place. A blank I can bear.”

“Wren, come back, please come back. Don't disappear again. I want you here. Stay here.”

“Larkin gets it, got it, the lies we live just to tread through time.”

“The real gift is time. Now. Each other, this night, and the wide, wide moon-silvered sea.”

“So this is life. Love. We spend all this time reaching for each other and mostly we end up hurting each other until it's over.”

“I hope that's a good thing,' I said, thinking he might say I reminded him of a film star- then we'd actually have something in common. I was hoping for Anne Hathaway or Julia Roberts, and not the obvious Vivien Leigh. Even Angelina Jolie would have done, though I'd never quite forgiven her for stealing Brad's heart. Talking of Brad, was Sean starting to resemble him too? No, he could never be a Brad, a Matthew McConaughey maybe at a push, but never a Brad Pitt.”