“I’d never ride a rocket into out space, so standing at the edge of the ocean was probably the closest I’d get to touching something boundless and greater than myself. For me, the ocean had a way of putting the rest of the world into context for a couple seconds.”
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“The cool, calm Liam was a total lie. The real Liam was just a scared little kid. Like me.”
“In the age of smartphones, everything’s a reality show!”
“Memory, when it juts, retreats, recovers, shows us how to hold the darkness, how to breathe.”
“Heartache purged layers of baggage I didn’t know I carried. Gifts hide under the layers of grief.”