A Sea of Unspoken Things Quotes

“We could fill the fucking ocean with the things we never said to each other... Now that ocean was so deep and wide that I couldn't even begin to make sense of it”
― Adrienne Young, A Sea of Unspoken Things

“That was the way of grief, I was realizing. It was a barrage of pain that was so unbearable that it made you numb. And then out of nowhere, something made you feel again and the cycle started over from the beginning”
― Adrienne Young, A Sea of Unspoken Things

“Both of us had always been trying to capture moments and keep them. Him with the camera, me with my pen. But in the end, we somehow always saw things differently”
― Adrienne Young, A Sea of Unspoken Things

“We were made in the dark. I used to hate it when Johnny said that, but now I know it’s true.”
― Adrienne Young, A Sea of Unspoken Things

“Maybe we were made in the dark, like Johnny said, but we'd found a way to create our own kind of light.”
― Adrienne Young, A Sea of Unspoken Things

“We were standing only inches apart, but I could feel the canyon that stretched between us. We'd ripped open the seams of a years-old wound, and it didn't matter how much time had passed, it would never heal. I was beginning to understand that now”
― Adrienne Young, A Sea of Unspoken Things

“The camera had been the eye through which Johnny saw the world. A window, where he could watch from a safe distance”
― Adrienne Young, A Sea of Unspoken Things

“I’d learned the hard way that wishing things were different only drove deeper how unfair it was that they weren’t.”
― Adrienne Young, A Sea of Unspoken Things

“I’d grown up feeling like the trees had eyes, each tangle of roots like a brain that held memories. I could feel, even now, that they remembered me.”
― Adrienne Young, A Sea of Unspoken Things

“Those two were like family and family's like that. Just as likely to kill them as you are to kill for them”
― Adrienne Young, A Sea of Unspoken Things

“There was a comfort in the familiarity of just existing in the same place at the same time.”
― Adrienne Young, A Sea of Unspoken Things

“That was the way of grief, I was realizing. It was a barrage of pain that was so unbearable that it made you numb. And then out of nowhere, something made you feel again and the cycle started over from the beginning.”
― Adrienne Young, A Sea of Unspoken Things

“It had taken losing Johnny to fully know him, but there was more to it than that. I had to lose him in order to even know myself.”
― Adrienne Young, A Sea of Unspoken Things

“And I guess that was what was so horrible about accidental deaths, like Amelia said. In a moment, with no meaning whatsoever, someone could just be…gone.”
― Adrienne Young, A Sea of Unspoken Things

“What do you want, James?" he said, hands feeling the shape of me beneath the silk of my dress.
The question felt like finding land, and my answer was a boat running ashore.
"I want you to take me home.”
― Adrienne Young, A Sea of Unspoken Things

“The picturesque town was like a painting against the unruly beauty of the forest. On the surface, it seemed like such a perfect place. A refuge from the chaos of the world. And maybe it was once, before the trees were scooped out to build a town for people to live. Before this place had been touched by humanity. Now, where there were people, there was pain. Even in a place like this”
― Adrienne Young, A Sea of Unspoken Things

“I couldn’t feel the heat brimming beneath my skin or the stinging cold in my fingertips anymore. I couldn’t feel any single thing because if I did, I’d feel it all—an entire ocean of pain and regret and fear that I’d held on to like a life raft for my entire life.”
― Adrienne Young, A Sea of Unspoken Things

“Why didn’t you ever tell me any of this?” I asked.
“Come on, James.”
“What?”
A long, exhausted breath escaped his lips. “We could fill the fucking ocean with the things we never said to each other.”
The pinch between my ribs twisted tighter. There was more behind that statement than I wanted to absorb, because it was unbearably true. Now that ocean was so deep and wide that I couldn’t even begin to make sense of it.
“I’m sorry about that,” I said, finally.
The shadow of a warped smile changed the shape of his mouth. “Me too.”
― Adrienne Young, A Sea of Unspoken Things

“The light had changed, too, adding to the stillness. The canopy far above diffused the sun into nothing more than glowing, golden air that hovered, suspended between the trees. The whole scene gave the innate feeling that you were leaving the world behind, entering into some imaginary place that didn’t really exist.”
― Adrienne Young, A Sea of Unspoken Things

“Maybe we were made in the dark, like Johnny said. But we’d found a way to create our own kind of light.”
― Adrienne Young, A Sea of Unspoken Things

“Maybe we were made in the dark, like Johnny said. But we'd found a way to create our own kind of light”
― Adrienne Young, A Sea of Unspoken Things

“The brother I'd laid to rest deep in the heart of the forest only minutes before had been unraveled and inspected. Picked apart. And for the first time ever in my life, I felt like I really understood him. He was this forest. Vastly unknowable and enduringly steady. A persistent force at the center of my world. And maybe in that way, he would never really be gone”
― Adrienne Young, A Sea of Unspoken Things