“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.”

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

“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.”

“Oh God, my stomach must have won a medal- it's doing a lap of honour now.”