The Girl on the Boat Quotes

“horizon, all their hopes were about to fade to nothing. She reaches into her pocket and clasps her shard of emerald, running her fingers along its sharp edge, taking a perverse sort of comfort from the prick of it into the soft pad of her thumb. The four of them all have a similar shard, split from the same perfect jewel. Have the others kept theirs? Have they held them in their hands and studied the deep green gleam, like a fire burning within, remembering all the promises they’d made to each other, all”
― Kate Hewitt, The Girl on the Boat

“can’t believe we are all here,” the woman continues softly. “After all this time.” “Not all of us,” the other woman replies, her voice quietly sorrowful. “But she’s coming, isn’t she? She must be coming.” The woman can’t imagine it any other way, not now, not when three of them are already here. They all made it this far. The silence that falls then feels like an ending. After all this time… Slowly, decisively, the woman in the doorway shakes her head. “She’s not coming,” she states with quiet, final certainty. “It’s only us.”
― Kate Hewitt, The Girl on the Boat

“if things are not as you wish, then wish them as you are”!”
― Kate Hewitt, The Girl on the Boat