Nature allowed only the fit and the lucky to share this paradise-in-the-making.

It is a luxury to do something that serves no practical purpose: the luxury of civilization.

We live with the decisions we makeThat’s what bravery is. Standing by the consequences of your mistakes.

There are times when the ocean is not the ocean - not blue, not even water, but some violent explosion of energy and danger: fierceness on a scale only gods can summon.

When it comes to their kids, parents are all just instinct and hope. And fear. Rules and laws fly straight out the window.

Years bleach away the sense of things until all that's left is a bone-white past, stripped of feeling and significance.

You don’t think ahead in years or months: you think about this hour, and maybe the next. Anything else is speculation.