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"But why do you want her?" Kino urged. "Because she makes me laugh," Jiya said. "It is she who made me forget the big wave. For me -- she is life." -- P.S.B.

"Until now you could not cry because you were not fully alive. You had been hurt too much. But today you are beginning to live, and so your tears flow. It is good for you. Let your tears come and do not stop them." -- P.S.B.

“Do you mean the ocean and the volcano cannot hurt us if we are not afraid?” Kino asked. “No,” his father replied. “I did not say that. Ocean is there and volcano is there. [...] [The] ocean may rise into storm and volcano may burst into flame. We must accept this fact, but without fear. We must say, ‘Someday I shall die, and does it matter whether it is by ocean or volcano, or whether I grow old and weak?'” - P.S.B.

Jiya lived in the last house [...] toward the ocean, and his house did not have have a window toward the sea either. "Why not?" Kino asked him. "The sea is beautiful." "The sea is our enemy," Jiya replied. "How can you say that?" Kino asked. "Your father catches fish from the sea and sells them and that is how you live." Jiya only shook his head. "The sea is our enemy," he repeated. "We all know it." -- P.S.B.