Amber’s Reviews > Wild Dark Shore > Status Update

“…we are kissing and I feel it again, that sense of time folding over on itself, of a thousand lifetimes spent together. If it is our bodies that should one day be washed up on shore then I hope they will do so together.”

“…here is the nature of life. That we must love things with our whole selves, knowing they will die.”

What I miss most is not any of the things I expected. It’s having someone to talk to about our children. The insights with which they blow my mind and the ways they change frequently and without mercy. I need her to help me process and deliberate and delight in …someone who understands not just the talent or cleverness of our children, but the wisdom the immensity of feeling they hold within.

She will see one day. Loving a place is the same as having a child. They are both too much an act of hope, of defiance. And those are a fool’s weapons.