“Genuinely good people are like that. The sun shines out of them. They warm you right through.”
― Alone on a Wide Wide Sea
― Alone on a Wide Wide Sea
“When you're young you can't work out the age of an adult - they're just quite old, old, or very old.”
― Alone on a Wide Wide Sea
― Alone on a Wide Wide Sea
“Death, I discovered that day, is not frightening, because it is utterly still. And it is still because death, when it comes, is always over. There's only terror in it if you fear it and ever since my first death, Wes' death, I have never feared it. It is simply the end of a story, and if you've loved the story then it is sad. And sometimes, as it was with Wes, it is an agony of sadness.”
― Alone on a Wide Wide Sea
― Alone on a Wide Wide Sea
“There's room for all sorts of magic and miracles in this world - that's what I think.”
― Alone on a Wide Wide Sea
― Alone on a Wide Wide Sea
“That's what sailing is, a dance, and your partner is the sea. And with the sea you never take liberties. You ask her, you don't tell her. You have to remember always that she's the leader, not you. You and your boat are dancing to her tune.”
― Alone on a Wide Wide Sea
― Alone on a Wide Wide Sea
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