Bone Island: Book of Danvers (Tales of Weeping Hollow, #2)

by Nicole Fiorina

“It seems I’ve broken the curse trapped inside us and, in the process, let all our monsters out.”

“Invisible and invincible, remember? Be stone, not paper. It’s the only way you will survive in a world full of people who will only disappoint you.”

The sea was a collector of things. It took things we cherished—most things we’d forgotten—and I still found myself drawn to her, unable to resist her call, needing to step into the graveyard of the lost, wild, and treasured.

There was pleasure in pain for someone like me—someone who was a pretty shell holding in an ocean of rage.

“A person only welcomes pain to either feel, distract, or suffocate something that hurts more.”

“Everyone dies, some more than once, but the true tragedy, I believe, is life being wasted on the afraid. People abuse time too often. Today, my darling, we are alive.”

we make mistakes, and no matter how hard we try, we won’t always get it right. As long as we continue moving forward with compassion and good intentions, these mistakes cannot define us, as they do not define them.

hope you feel how deeply rooted you are in me. There is only one way you should be loved, and that is with my whole heart and last breath. So, you have me completely.”