Beside a Burning Sea Quotes

“A sibling would be the one person in the whole world who would be with you from birth until death. At every step, she or he would be there.”
― John Shors, Beside a Burning Sea

“How can you say goodbye to someone who is a part of you?”
― John Shors, Beside a Burning Sea

“I'll treasure every day that I have with you. For I've known what life was like before you and..and since you, and as far as I'm concerned, these are two different lives. And one makes me so very much happier that the other.”
― John Shors, Beside a Burning Sea

“They say all things end. But I say all things begin.”
― John Shors, Beside a Burning Sea

“I'm not trying to save the world, much of it is not worth saving.”
― John Shors, Beside a Burning Sea

“The body can survive while the soul dies.”
― John Shors, Beside a Burning Sea

“I believe that people who find each other in this life will find each other in the next.”
― John Shors, Beside a Burning Sea

“She was tired of being afraid, so impossibly weary of her own fears that a part of her wanted to sit on the quite beach forever. If she sat in the sand forever,she wouldn't have to face the troubles that often seemed to define her life. As a tear descended her cheek, she wiped it away, turning toward the sea.”
― John Shors, Beside a Burning Sea

“...and when the twilight of that ride is finally upon us, we will look at the trail we have taken and at the signs of our passage. And though our tears will be many, we will know that great lives have been lived, and that our memories will forever bind us together.”
― John Shors, Beside a Burning Sea

“A Reason? People always say that. But only pepole who haven't really suffered talk about reasons. Because that's so much eaiser to say than to hear. What's the reason that our patients die? That they'll never walk again? That we've treated children whose limbs have been blown off? For that matter what's the reason for this hideous war?”
― John Shors, Beside a Burning Sea

“I listen....because I don't have any answers.”
― John Shors, Beside a Burning Sea

“At that moment with the dolphins gliding about her, Annie realized that the sea could be dark and cold and unforgiving but could also be full of light and warmth and hope. And was life any different? Yes she had almost died three times-once as a girl, twice as a woman. And those scars would never truly leave her. But a scar shows that a wound as mostly healed, and if something has mostly healed, why did she need to live in fear of it?”
― John Shors, Beside a Burning Sea

“No you don't understand. I've been afraid my whole life.

So Sorry, but may I ask of what?

Of the future...of my path..I've..I've been afraid of so many things.

Perhaps..Perhaps your days of being afraid are done.”
― John Shors, Beside a Burning Sea

“She'd been caged for far too long.”
― John Shors, Beside a Burning Sea

“Annie didn't reply, her own words about death reminding her of the terror that had consumed her when she dropped beneath the waves. In that blackness, she hadn't thought about those she loved, or of all that she'd done. On the contrary, she'd been reminded of what she hadn't done. And the fear of never doing such things had filled her with a longing she hadn't known.”
― John Shors, Beside a Burning Sea