The Sky Beneath Her Quotes

“Mom”
― Mary Ellen Taylor, The Sky Beneath Her

“Torpedoes had sunk nearly four hundred vessels along the entire East Coast of the US. Over eighty of these ships went down off the Outer Banks, where the shifting sandbars near Hatteras had allowed Germany’s U-boats to hide in deep waters. Sometimes storms unearthed these vessels, pushing fragments toward the shore, only for the tides to bury them in the sand. But most sunken remains were like the Oceanus: forever buried from sight.”
― Mary Ellen Taylor, The Sky Beneath Her

“Beyond exercising reasonable caution, he’d warned, giving in to fear was unnecessary and indulgent.”
― Mary Ellen Taylor, The Sky Beneath Her