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“That’s what they do to the people they take on the beach? They kill them?” His expression turns grim. “Yeah”
― Brenda Rothert, Blue Arrow Island: A Fast-Paced Novel of Forbidden Love and Survival in a Brutal Dystopian World

“You’re coming back?” “If you want me to. If you want this like I want this.” She quickly nods. “I want this, Dean. I want you. I want everything I told myself I didn’t deserve.” “You deserve it all, Corabelle, and I’ll spend my whole damn life giving it to you.”
― Jennifer Hartmann, Still Beating

“Happy anniversary, Corabelle.” “Happy anniversary,” I whisper back, the tears already threatening to spill. I reach for my locket with my free hand, fisting the heart pendant between my fingers as my other hand clings to my husband. And on the count of three, we rush into the ocean, tears mixing with laughter, love swelling higher than the tide, and we jump into the water. Together.”
― Jennifer Hartmann, Still Beating

“In the photograph by my bed my mother is perpetually smiling on me. I guess I have forgiven us both, although sometimes in the night my dreams will take me back to the sadness, and I have to wake up and forgive us again.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees