“We are shoulder to shoulder due to the size of the cab, and if Gratton is made of flour and potatoes, Sean is made of stone and driftwood and possibly those prickly anemones that sometimes wash up on shore.”
“Sometimes when I think of life, I feel like a piece of driftwood washed up on shore.”
“But sometimes the world disrobes, slips its dress off a shoulder, stops time for a beat. If we look up at that moment, it's not due to any ability of ours to pierce the darkness, it's the world's brief bestowal. The catastrophe of grace.”
“There are open wounds, shrunk sometimes to the size of a pin-prick but wounds still.”
“The thought occurred to her that God made her daddy's shoulders broad and strong so he could hold up the burdens of others.”
“...I made some more threats. I've got this big knife back here." He poked his thumb over his shoulder. "It attracts a lot of attention sometimes.”