“Despite the rain, Indigo looked, as always, like he’d been dipped in a vat of sunshine. His skin and eyes were the same gold-brown colour, like raw amber when you hold it up to the light. His brown curls sprang up in all directions, and he was wearing a pair of mud-spattered yellow overalls.” CharacterFunSeaOceanSummer Book:The City Beyond the Sea Source: The City Beyond the Sea
“dozens and dozens of memories: some good and some bad, but the greater part of them complicated, like most things in life.” SeaSadSummerBeach Book:The City Beyond the Sea Source: The City Beyond the Sea
“Max emerged soaking wet, and blinking, and there was a crown of coral on his head. It was, Daisy thought, the most beautiful and wild object she’d ever seen – the colour of a sunset, sharp around its edges, and set with rough pearls that seemed to shift colour with the sea, from blue to green to white.” MagicSeaSummerBeachReadChildrenbooks Book:The City Beyond the Sea Source: The City Beyond the Sea
“The wind was fresh, and the sky was blue and crossed with fresh white clouds like crisp pillowcases hung out to dry. Their boat was at the head of the three others they’d seen the night before, all of them as shabby as Daisy remembered, with peeling gold paint around their portholes. They looked like canal boats, except that they also had beautiful sails that snapped in the wind.” SeaOceanSummerBoatWaves Book:The City Beyond the Sea Source: The City Beyond the Sea