Beach Plum Island Quotes

“He told me I could live in a corner of the world, like I was doing now, and think I was happy, or I could live in the whole world and know where I belonged,” Peter said.”
― Holly Robinson, Beach Plum Island

“The tide will come in and there won’t be any more footprints. It’s like our lives, right? Whatever we do before this moment in time, we can’t do over. We have no choice in life but to keep moving ahead.”
― Holly Robinson, Beach Plum Island

“So exhausting, the whole business of motherhood. It was a business, too, complete with compromises and disappointing returns for your investments, with budgets and schedules and task lists and surly underlings.”
― Holly Robinson, Beach Plum Island

“Maybe, no matter what right thing you tried to do, your action would be the wrong thing for somebody”
― Holly Robinson, Beach Plum Island

“She was beginning to think that the death of somebody you loved was like throwing rocks in a pond. Piles and piles of rocks: the ripples kept on spreading, disrupting the smooth surface of your life long after you’d lost track of where, exactly, the rocks went into the water.”
― Holly Robinson, Beach Plum Island

“Don’t spend your whole life waiting for someday to come,” he’d told Gigi on that trip. “You never know when you’re going to run out of time.”
― Holly Robinson, Beach Plum Island

“She supposed it was a universal truth that mothers, after tearing out their hair and tacking their raw beating hearts to the outsides of their clothing for anyone to see, were given no warning that some-day their baby-holding days would be over.”
― Holly Robinson, Beach Plum Island

“Being a mother was like being a ship’s figurehead: you had to keep moving forward through the waves and weather, your head high, even when an iceberg was clearly on the horizon, too big to go around.”
― Holly Robinson, Beach Plum Island

“nobody escapes this sick feeling that comes with discovering, over and over again, that the people you love are not who you thought they were.”
― Holly Robinson, Beach Plum Island

“Nobody outside a marriage can really know what’s happening on the inside of it.”
― Holly Robinson, Beach Plum Island