Time goes on, even when yer not looking.
The sound when we crash is so loud it's almost impossible.
It is a true story, the monster said. Many things that are true feel like a cheat.
Whereas the town knows all about you already and wants to know more and wants to beat you with what it knows till how can you have any of yourself left at all?
No,' Ben says, 'but I believe it. I believe it for you. And that's why it's hope.
Ah, well, then you've never stood on a beach as the waves came crashing in, the water stretching out from you until it's beyond sight, moving and blue and alive and so much bigger than even the black beyond seems because the ocean hides what it contains.