"Manhattan Beach" Quotes
A young woman becomes the first female civilian diver at the Brooklyn Naval Yard during World War II, while also searching for her missing father.
historical fiction | 438 pages | Published in 2017
Quotes
I can’t help but think how the world is full of women who would like to go home but can’t. Because they’re not allowed to, or because they’re afraid to.
Life is a choice. You can live in the world you were born into, or you can create a new one.
There was something about the sense of possibility and the absence of rules that was intoxicating.
No one could protect you from the hard things of the world.
She was growing into a woman who could make her own choices.
A person could be two things at once, or even many.
It was a way of saying: I’m not afraid of the dark. I’m not afraid of the unknown.
It’s the hardest thing to admit, when you’re not where you want to be.
She had the sense that the world was larger than she’d ever known.
What she was seeing was a different kind of love, a love of people who were not related, who made their own families.
