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1 " Strength ebbed and flowed, but brittle would break. "
― Shelley Noble , Beach Colors
2 " Life was about loss. One minute standing on the promise of your dreams, then free-falling backward into nothingness. Is this what it meant to grow old? To gradually be stripped of all you cared about. And then what? Were you supposed to spend the rest of your life, dreaming about the past while you waited to die? Or did you start a new life, set the cycle in motion once again. Take the chance of losing that, too. And if you did, what happened to the old life? Did it die away from lack of attention? "
3 " It seemed as if the longer she lived, the more was taken from her. Not gradually, as old age fell into the inevitable, but lobbed off in great chunks, the healthy branches sacrificed along with the frail. "
4 " Margaux was older and wiser now and knew the waves couldn't fix what was wrong in her life, but at least they might give her some temporary respite. "
5 " Bad memories were hard enough, but it was torture to be haunted by the good. "
6 " Knives of rain slashed at his eyes and slapped his windbreaker against his skin. "
― Shelley Noble , Breakwater Bay
7 " He stopped trying to save himself and let the breakwater draw the boat in. He knew just when to stick out the oar to keep from crashing. Held on with all his strength. The dinghy crunched as it hit, and he flung the rope over the spike his dad had hammered into the rock years before. "
8 " anyway. "
9 " She looked at him and he realized how long it "
10 " Now I know how Michelangelo felt. Only he ended up with the Sistine Chapel and I got a sooty ceiling in a minor mansion with two hundred plus chips from twenty layers of ancient paint in various hues of ick. "
11 " She just wanted to watch, see how Sarah lived. See what kind of kid she was fostering. "
― Shelley Noble , Forever Beach
12 " Well, I did turn thirty today somewhere between layer four—baby poop brown—and layer three—seventies kitchen green. "
13 " Bailey’s eyes rolled upward. “The man ran a merry-go-round in a backwater town. Get over it. "
― Shelley Noble , Stargazey Nights
14 " Whoever called summer a vacation was bat poop crazy. "
15 " She’d just graduated from Ann Arbor "
― Shelley Noble , Stargazey Point (Stargazey, #2)
16 " Stargazey Point was majestic but personable, vast yet comforting, formidable but engaging. "
17 " I’ve been around for a long time, seen lots of places, and the one thing I learned was that it sometimes takes a village, not largesse handed down from the haves or the has-beens—something "
18 " Girl, you so busy lookin’ behind you, you cain’t see what’s up ahead. "
19 " went over to her desk to pull up her e-mail on her laptop. She started with her personal account, systematically deleting and archiving. Read a couple. Nothing that couldn’t wait until tomorrow or the next day or week. Moved onto her business account. Not so many there. She scrolled down, paused, "
20 " Laughter was too close to tears. "
