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“I myself was now an island. Solitary. Brambles and five-petalled flowers were my garden. Rocks my furniture. Ocean waves my lessons. Sadness overwhelmed me and sank back. Then, like the tide, joy crept in on me again.”
― Allegra Goodman, Isola

“The strange thing, the awkward thing, was what to do with a single woman who was not there to be beautiful or to entertain.”
― Liz Moore, The God of the Woods

“You have never loved from a distance, but then you have never known love like this.”
― Caleb Azumah Nelson, Open Water

“You wonder how long this moment could stretch for, and how much it could contain: you, her, the soft rush of cars speeding in the darkness, the gaze, seeing each other here, her heartbeat near audible, before she says, ‘I love you, you know?’ She has swum out into open water, and it is not long before you join her. You take but a moment before saying, ‘I love you too.”
― Caleb Azumah Nelson, Open Water