“Whisper to the flashing water your real name, write your signature in the sand, and shout your identity to the sky until it answers to you in thunder.”

“The end comes to all of us...but the end comes quicker to those who do not live their lives as they choose. If your life is not your own, then in what way is it living?”

“Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf.”

“Give us a call or you know, flash a searchlight in the sky with your logo on it, because we monitor everything.”

“Gwen?" "Yes.""You know why we have to be together, don't you?""...""I'm your selkie.”

“The best words I ever heard about making your own reputation," Gram said, looking over her shoulder into the back seat, "is that you come into the world crying while everyone is smiling at the miracle of you, and you should live your life so when you leave it, you're smiling, but everyone else is crying because the miracle of you is gone.”

“As if I were a dog, to follow at your heels.”