Summer Island

by Kristin Hannah

But she couldn’t do it. No matter how hard she tried, Ruby couldn’t let down her guard. Her emotions were packed tightly inside her, hermetically sealed so that every wound and memory stayed fresh.

But how did you do that? How did two people move backward through time and untie a knot that had tangled through every moment of their lives?

“No matter how dark a place is, there are always moments of light.

She felt the sting of that missed opportunity, and wondered how often that happened in life. Chances lost and won on a turn of fate so small they couldn’t be seen by the naked eye.

There’s no substitute for talking to the people you love. Thinking about them, dreaming about them, wishing things were different…all of these are the beginning. But someone has to make the first move.