Who wants to feel everything everyone else feels all the time?
What?" She drew herself up, stern as a cat presented with the wrong food for dinner.
It's okay to play turtle for a while, as long as you don't get too fond of your shell.
We don't go to the ocean for anything as simple as happiness, do we? We go there to feel alive. Like life, the ocean holds chance and change, grief and terror and beauty. It promises mortality, not peace.
Uh - do you want to do it outside? "Frequently. Oh, you meant the wedding. That, too.
She had of course, kept working. He liked to think she would have moved under the table to continue her task if a gun battle had broken out, but he wasn't sure.