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.
Ann BrasharesYou couldn't erase the past. You couldn't even change it. But sometimes life offered you the opportunity to put it right.
Ann BrasharesShe wondered if maybe tragedy was what it took to make your heart capable of admitting a new member.
Ann BrasharesMaybe happiness was just a matter of the little upticks- the traffic signal that said "Walk" the second you go there- and downticks- the itch tag at the back of your collar- that happened to every person in the course of the day. Maybe everybody had the same allotted measure of happiness within each day.
Ann Brashares