The House on Mermaid Point Quotes

“There’d been so many things she’d thought she’d known when in fact she’d barely understood the smallest thing.”
― Wendy Wax, The House on Mermaid Point

“Oh, it’s so gorgeous!” They were full on to the sun, which glowed low directly ahead of them, heavy with golden light and warmth. Maddie cut to idle speed so that they could float gently and watch it make its way toward the water. It looked as if it might splash down right in front of them. They watched it in awed silence as it appeared to melt, spreading a golden glow across the surface. “It’s so different watching it on the water,” Avery said. “So up close and personal.” Maddie drew the salt-tinged air into her lungs and felt the play of the warm breeze in her hair and across her cheek. A white heron winged through the sky. With her back turned to U.S. 1, the bay and its canals branching out toward mangrove-covered spits of land made civilization seemed far away.”
― Wendy Wax, The House on Mermaid Point

“The last time you gave me ‘Hightower detail’ he caught me with his underwear in my hands.” “I’m sorry I missed that.” Nicole’s voice rang with suppressed laughter. “We’re all sorry we missed that,” Deirdre added. “I can’t tell you how much I wish I’d missed that,” Maddie said drily.”
― Wendy Wax, The House on Mermaid Point

“The hangers that held his hanging clothes had been aligned in the same direction. All of it had been arranged by color.”
― Wendy Wax, The House on Mermaid Point

“He was still telling himself to calm down, patting his pockets for a Tootsie Pop—something he hadn’t done all week—when he went into the closet and found Goldilocks surrounded by piles of his clothes and possessions, each pile organized and labeled with handwritten descriptions.”
― Wendy Wax, The House on Mermaid Point

“She waited for one of them to say something that might facilitate a more in-depth conversation, something that might bridge the distance between them; but neither man spoke.”
― Wendy Wax, The House on Mermaid Point

“it was, in fact, possible to accidentally accelerate in reverse.”
― Wendy Wax, The House on Mermaid Point

“They looked at each other. “I don’t understand it. But I know who sent it.” Maddie Singer’s thumbs and her iPhone were often incompatible. She claimed she’d been a lot more comfortable with her smartphone before it got so smart.”
― Wendy Wax, The House on Mermaid Point

“Madeline Singer had recently achieved two things that surprised her: a senior citizen discount; and the legal right to date.”
― Wendy Wax, The House on Mermaid Point