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21 " There’re always reasons to stay,” he says. “You just need to find one reason to leave. "
― Shea Ernshaw , The Wicked Deep
22 " There are legends of mermaids who fall in love with sailors, their devotion granting them a human form. I read about the Irish tales of selkies shedding their sealskins, marrying a human man, and staying on land forever. "
23 " There is no history in a place until we make it, until you live a life worth remembering. "
― Shea Ernshaw , A History of Wild Places
24 " No thinking, just doing. When you think about things too long, you just talk yourself out of them. "
25 " I once read a poem about love being fragile, as thin as glass and easily broken. "
26 " I'm certain that love can be a wound, deep and saw-toothed and filled with salt. But sometimes it's worth it. "
― Shea Ernshaw , Winterwood
27 " She is just a girl.With raven hair and crush-your-heart-in-half eyes. "
28 " Locked doors are better than friends you can't trust. "
29 " To the readers of this story, if you find yourself in a dark wood, without a match to light the way. Be your own light. "
30 " Her name is Nora Walker. I don’t know anything about her, yet somehow I remember the arch of her smile. The soft river of her hair. The flutter of her eyes when she watches me. The scent of her skin like jasmine and vanilla. And when her lips purse together and she hums a song under her breath, memories I can’t possibly have pour through me. She is a name and a heartbeat that lives inside me. "
31 " The sunlight catches his eyes, making the dark green seem like pieces of emerald glass, an entire world contained within them. "
32 " Silence can hold a thousand untold stories." (14) "
33 " The sisters have all found bodies.” The words seem pulled from my throat. The quiet settles between each of my ribs, it expands my lungs, it reminds me of what’s to come. “They’ve all returned.” I close my eyes, focusing on the silence. It’s the fastest it’s ever happened before. Now the drowning will begin. "
34 " If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water. —Loren Eiseley "
35 " There's always reasons to stay. You just need one reason to leave. "
36 " I'd rather sit out here where it's quiet. Drink my coffee and read a book. "
37 " It’s as predictable as the tide and the moon. It ebbs and flows. Death comes and it goes."- THE WICKED DEEP "
― Shea Ernshaw
38 " It starts as a low croon that rolls in with the tide, a sound so faint it might just be the wind blowing through the clapboard shutters, through the portholes of docked fishing boats, and into narrow cracks along sagging doorways. But after the first night, the harmony of voices become undeniable. An enchanting hymn sailing over the water’s surface, cool and soft and alluring. The Swan sisters have awakened. "
39 " I thought I wanted to be alone, that I was brave and strong and didn't need a single thing from anyone. But now I'm not so sure. "
40 " And late at night when he folds her in his arms beside the crackling fire and kisses the space just behind her ear, she knows he's falling in love with her. And maybe he's loved her long before this, long before he pulled her from the water on the night of the summer solstice—the night that is a blur in her memory. But she doesn't ask. She doesn't want to know about the before. Because she loves him now, with the wind seeping through the cracks in the cottage windows...the world stretched out before them.They have eternity. Or even if it's just one life, one long, singular life—that's enough. "