“She had always been good at dreaming, but what she had never done before was believe a dream could actually come true. She believed now. The wonder of setting sail created possibilities she had never considered before.”
“Alone because love wasone of those feelings that you could never have control of. And she neededto be in control. She had loved before, had been loved, had tasted what it wasto dream, and had felt what it was to dance on air. She had also learned whatit was to cruelly land back on the earth with a thud.”
“She had fooled herself into believing she was living the life she’d always dreamed of living when all she had been doing was hiding from it.”
“Now she realized she had never been kissed before. Not really. Not like this.Ah, never like this.”
“She had never been afraid of the dark, but then she had never known a dark like this before.”
“She'd never known true contentment before now. She had waited her whole life for someone to set her free.”