It's okay to play turtle for a while, as long as you don't get too fond of your shell.

Women were complicated creatures. Any man who thought he had one figured out simply wasn't paying attention.

Dogs make sense. They understand hierarchy and the need to cooperate. They come when you call them. A cat though—a cat will take your number and get back to you. Maybe. If he’s in a good mood.

How to put this feeling, this certainty, into something as limited as words?

But when you slice truth too thin, you deceive.

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.

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.