“There is a song within us all. I know this now because in the long silences of the open ocean I have heard it. It resounds. It is perpetual. It cannot be ignored. It is sweet. You can try to dismiss it, but it is more forceful than you are; it can drive you in ways of which you will not be conscious, for it is setting the tempo of your life even more strongly than the beat of your heart. Over time its volume will vary: one minute shrill, whispering the next. Yet it remains and is all-powerful”