“Because if I fell any deeper for the way his eyes crinkled with his smile or his habit of tapping on his nose to emphasize a point, my ship would be sunk.”

“Too late; my awkwardness had already made an unforgettable appearance, so, of course, I couldnt be let off the hook.”

“What bothered me the most was the hesitation in his voice when he said that like he was running out of time.”

“If youre supposed to work with someone, Id recommend not getting all hot and bothered with them the night before. The word of the day was tense.”

“Flirt with the old ladies and youll be fine, I muttered, shoving my stuff into the cubby. He hung his green hoodie on the hooks right beside me. Is that how you get by? Doesnt work on the old ladie...”

“The choice lay out for me. Stay on land or plunge into the icy depths of the sea. I always chose the sea.”

“They say when you are missing someone that they are probably feeling the same, but I don't think it's possible for you to miss me as much as I'm missing you right now”

“Sometimes when I look at you, I feel I'm gazing at a distant star. It's dazzling, but the light is from tens of thousands of years ago.Maybe the star doesn't even exist any more. Yet sometimes that...”

“I want morning and noon and nightfall with you. I want your tears, your smiles, your kisses...the smell of your hair, the taste of your skin, the touch of your breath on my face. I want to see you ...”

“At such times, under an abated sun; afloat all day upon smooth, slow heaving swells; seated in his boat, light as a birch canoe; and so sociably mixing with the soft waves themselves, that like hea...”

“Down dropt the breeze, the sails dropt down, 'Twas sad as sad could be; And we did speak only to break The silence of the sea! All in a hot and copper sky, The bloody Sun, at noon, Right up above t...”

“When Rachel Carson accepted the National Book Award, she said, 'if there is poetry in my book about the sea it is not because I deliberately put it there but because no one could write truthfully a...”