“I'd never realized how changeless this changeable island was until it turned into something different than I'd ever known.”
“In those moments, I'd known that something new was being formed in me, too, created so gently that I hadn't even realized it until that evening by the shore.”
“It's funny how this total stranger could relate to me better than anyone else I'd ever met. It was as if I'd known her my entire life.”
“I'd never realized how bad that house needed music until I heard it, I knew right then that big houses need music more than little ones.”
“His perpetual grin was wider than any I'd ever seen, and that included several guys I'd known at Dreadgrave's with no skin on their faces.”
“I don't know how I'd made it seventeen years without kissing. It was the finest thing I'd ever known. Like stumbling into heaven.”