“But what would that be likefeeling the tide riseout of the numbness inside”
“Tides do what tides do–they turn.”
“What the tide takes away, the tide brings back.”
“I learned how to stop crying.I learned how to hide inside of myself.I learned how to be somebody else.I learned how to be cold and numb.”
“He was numb: heart-numb, mind-numb, soul-numb. And the numbness, he realized, went a long way down, and a long way back.”
“He was so close she could almost hear the movement of his thoughts, the role of the tide; she had slipped inside his skin.”