I always interpret coincidences as little clues to our destiny
Everyone is fragile. Everything beautiful is fragile
But certain souls cohere. It's rare but possible. But it takes two powerful wills to make it so.
Carmen didn't like change, and she certainly didn't like endings.
The ocean was the best place, of course. That was what she loved most. It was a feeling of freedom like no other, and yet a feeling of communion with all the other places and creatures the water touched.
She loved her mother and depended on her mother, and yet every single word her mother said annoyed her.