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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

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

“I stake the future on the few humble and hearty lovers who seek God passionately in the marvelous, messy world of redeemed and related realities that lie in front of our noses.”