Explore Book Quotes

“The alarm shakes the bedside table. Without opening her eyes, Elisa feels for the clock’s ice-cold stopper. She’d been in a deep, soft, warm dream and wanted it back, one more tantalizing minute. But the dream eludes wakeful pursuit; it always does. There was water, dark water-that much she remembers. Tons of it, pressing at her, only she didn’t drown. She breathed inside it better, in fact, than she does here, in waking life, in drafty rooms, in cheap food, in sputtering electricity.”

Women can always put things in fewest words. Except when it’s blowing up; and then they lengthens it out.

“And Vin liked solitude. When you’re alone, no one can betray you.”

“My fingers trembled as I opened the cover. There would be so much of Amy in this book it would be impossible to get through it without a few major cries. But I had to read it.”

“If I look into a mirror and don’t like what I see, I won’t change my appearance. I’ll change my mindset.”

“The Yukon was straining to break loose the ice that bound it down.”

“For so many years my insignificance and invisibility have been a mask I can hide behind. And in the process I have avoided raking up the past. Raking up the shame.”

“I hope I may always have the title of a friend.”

“The journey down the Amazon was one that Maia never forgot. In places the river was so wide that they sailed between distant lines of tree and Maia understood why it was called the river sea.”

“Now, old Jim, you’re a free man again, and I bet you won’t ever be a slave no more.”