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Where the Sea Used to Be QUOTES

1 " Sometimes they would fly down to the coast, near Mobile, land the plane on a lonely stretch of beach, and get out and walk along the shore, in winter: no one else out. He would lean slightly forward, listening to the slow, steady lapping of waves dying into the shore. He would hold Sara's hand. If she tried to speak while he was listening, imagining, he would raise a finger to his lips. The only reason he could have two passions rather than one was because he had never ruined the first. It hadn't ever been sold, when asked for. She watched him watch the beach, the ocean, and considered his success "

― Rick Bass , Where the Sea Used to Be

2 " he lay down in the middle of the field in the sun on his back and closed his eyes, and felt wind, sun, the ground below him...The sun confused him, with its warmth, the brightness. He dozed throughout the rest of the afternoon. His life meant something. he was his own man, belonged to no one. "

― Rick Bass , Where the Sea Used to Be

3 " Sara would listen for his plane in the afternoons. It did not make sense, but she could hear it even before the dogs could. "

― Rick Bass , Where the Sea Used to Be