“Water is peaceful. I am at rest. In thewater, I am safe and pulled in where Icant get out. Everything slows downthe noise and the racing of my thoughts.”

“Water is peaceful. I am at rest. In the water, I am safe and pulled in where I can't get out. Everything slows down-the noise and the racing of my thoughts.”

“You are driving me crazy. You have been driving me crazy for weeks.”

“What the world stigmatizes as romantic is often more nearly allied to the truth than is commonly supposed.”

“Sky, wait. The way his voice wraps around my name makes me wish the only word in his entire vocabulary way Sky.”

“I'm not going to do it again," Lena Marquez whispered to the red purse across the hall from her nestle of blankets. "Never again.”