"Cloud Nine" Quotes
A woman returns to her childhood home on the Connecticut shore to confront her past and find healing.
romance | 368 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
The sea always filled her with longing, though for what she was never sure.
The past was never dead. It wasn't even past.
Memories, maybe, were like a string of pearls, each one precious, polished and opalescent, strung on the golden thread of time.
Love, like the ocean, was a tidal force, a rising and falling of emotions, ebbing and flowing.
The sea was as changeable as a woman's mood.
Sometimes the heart takes you to places that reason never could.
Grief was a heavy cloak, but sometimes it was a comfort, too, a shelter from the storm.
In the end, all we have are memories. They're all we are, really.
The sea was a relentless lover, demanding and passionate, and always taking more than it gave.
Time was the great healer, but it was a slow and patient hand.
