“After all, our families–our ancestors–are our identities. Biology is destiny.”

By not asking too much, you can believe in almost anything..like..a starry night in the mountains, or even the existence of fate.

I’m not who you think I am, I had said to T.J. the last time I’d seen him. Maybe I wasn’t who I’d thought I was either.

When people went on vacation, they shed their home skins, thought they could be a new person.

It was always the same ocean, but the waves made it fresh and new each time.

Summer-induced stupidity. That was the diagnosis.

I suddenly understood. Mom and I weren’t trespassing. This house was ours. This view was ours. And that seemed as absurd and unreal as the stories Sailor Hat had spun for me on the ferry.

…Promises are more dangerous then secrets.

I watched the land for as long as I could, until it disappeared behind its shawl of mist.

Come find me,” Leo put in, his gaze full of understanding. “Whenever you want. I’ll be here.

And until I had it fixed in my mind – unchanged, mysterious and beautiful

My skin prickled and I looked back at the ocean. None of us ask for the things we inherit; they are thrust upon us, willy-nilly. Like The Marine.

I couldn’t think. The basics of my life seemed altered and thrown into question.

It struck me then how much the past – not just the past but history and family – was like the ocean tide.

To hunger and thirst after righteousness is when nothing in the world can fascinate us so much as being near God.

a little sounder for those who come after. Nobody begins or ends anything. Each person is a link, weak or strong, in an endless chain.

Never sweep. After four years the dirt gets no worse.

And after Brexit, we will be free to determine our economic future, with control over our money, laws and borders.

The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility.

Life comes after you have been filled with the Holy Spirit. Get down and pray for power.

All animals are sad after coitus except the female human and the rooster.

Whatever the mind sets itself on is what the man walks after.