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Shark Heart

Book by Emily Habeck · 13 quotes · Love, Metaphor, Grief

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“The surface of love was a feeling, but beyond this thin layer, there was a fathomless, winding maze of caverns offering many places to see and explore. Wren used to think romantic passion only grew more intense in the depths.”

Love Romance Passion

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“It was not really a dancing song but, rather, the kind of music that made you want to nestle into the arms of someone wonderful and stay there forever. Through the music's swells, they swayed, and they knew, and they held each other, and they knew, and they melted, and they knew, and they knew, and they knew. Everything would be different and difficult soon.”

Love Change Music Dancing

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“Lewis gazed at the moon and then to Wren and once more at the moon and back to Wren, realizing, startlingly, he could not tell the two entities apart.”

Love Romance Beauty Memory The Moon

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“Truth and Love were complicated concepts on their own, and patching the two words together created a significant tangle Lewis could not unwind.”

Love Truth True Love

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“So, maybe love wasn't an unwieldy accessory in times of peril. Maybe it was the key to survival.”

Love Romance Family

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“You're like a brother to me." Lewis felt his fins tingle as a light flickered on in him, his retired boyhood wish for a sibling coming to life. "You're like a sister to me," Lewis echoed, realizing as he said it that few things had ever felt so true.”

Love Family Found Family Sibling Relationships

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“Lewis, you've told me so much about Wren, sometimes I think I miss her, too.”

Love Loss Grief

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“In their innocence, they failed to grasp the labor of losing a partner, how the tasks of simple existence would become logistical feats and one person's burden.”

Love Romance Loss Grief Burden

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“As their saltwater tears combined with the sea, Lewis finally understood the log line of their love story: He was an aimless kite in search of a string to ground him to the world, but instead, he'd found Wren, a great, strong wind who supported his exploration of the sky.”

Love Romance Wind Metaphor Anchors Kites String

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“She hated the cliché, but Lewis gave her something she didn't even know she needed. Wren needed it so much she could not resist him once he found her, but when she began to love him, Wren battled indecision and fear, the convincing voice telling her that loving was a risk she could not afford.”

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“Wren started dining alone in cafes, diners, bars, and restaurants just to be near other people, the movements and sounds of lives being lived together. On one of these solo excursions, Wren met a man in a yellow shirt who made her feel that the world was a good place, and the world was a good place because she was someone living in it.”

Love Feelings Togetherness First Meetings

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“Margaret felt his smile was bright enough to turn the dark ocean aflame with light and colors yet to be seen or invented.”

Love Light Smile Colors

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“Wren did not love him obliquely, making him dance for her affection.”

Love Romance Marriage

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