Marriage and especially the ceremony which announces it, the wedding... That is how we say to the world, 'These two are now a family, and with this joining our families are joined, too. And you had damned well better respect that.

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

Surely a woman who picked a spot so close to the ocean didn't automatically hide from the rain.

Don't call the man a claustrophobe just because small spaces scare him. Right.

I see you. I will be careful with the places that hurt.

Bleeding isn't optional for most of us.

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.