A Stone in the Sea Quotes

“I don’t remember how to breathe without you.”
― A.L. Jackson, A Stone in the Sea

“Where there’s beauty, there’s also pain.”
― A.L. Jackson, A Stone in the Sea

“I guess when you loved someone, you were willing to accept all the pieces and factors and fragments that made them up, the sum of those adding up to the whole, and you were left with no choice but to wholly accept the total of that creation.”
― A.L. Jackson, A Stone in the Sea

“My girl.
Maybe in another lifetime, if I'd chosen another path, if I'd made a million different choices.”
― A.L. Jackson, A Stone in the Sea

“I wanted someone to look at me the way Shea had. Knowing I had absolutely nothing to give her and still she wanted it all the same. Me.”
― A.L. Jackson, A Stone in the Sea

“And each time, he slipped a little deeper into my bones.”
― A.L. Jackson, A Stone in the Sea

“That I don’t even know you, and somehow you feel like one of the most significant people to have ever walked into my life?”
― A.L. Jackson, A Stone in the Sea

“Holy shit, I think our boy here has a crush. I do believe the sky is falling.”
― A.L. Jackson, A Stone in the Sea

“I wanted to escape into her layers, to skim along the surface, and get lost in the beauty. To feel the shyness. To sink beneath, deeper into that pent-up confusion and dark.”
― A.L. Jackson, A Stone in the Sea

“Find love and bring it here,”
― A.L. Jackson, A Stone in the Sea

“The only promise he’d ever made me was the one that he was going to break me.”
― A.L. Jackson, A Stone in the Sea

“To be blinded by her light while she drowned me in her sea of dark.”
― A.L. Jackson, A Stone in the Sea

“Every instinct told me I needed to run, that there was something about this beautiful stranger I couldn’t resist.”
― A.L. Jackson, A Stone in the Sea

“I lifted my face to the stars that stretched on forever, an eternal canopy that seemed too low yet impossible to touch.”
― A.L. Jackson, A Stone in the Sea

“I wasn’t supposed to fall in love with you.”
... “Yes, you were.”
― A.L. Jackson, A Stone in the Sea

“Do you think I like it that you’re the only thing I can think about? That when I close my eyes, what I see is your face? That I don’t even know you, and somehow you feel like one of the most significant people to have ever walked into my life?”
― A.L. Jackson, A Stone in the Sea

“I peeked over at Baz who was relaxed back in the high-backed stool, taking me in like it was the most natural thing in the world. Like he was supposed to be looking at me because he couldn’t see anything else. Just like my eyes were continually drawn to his gaze.”
― A.L. Jackson, A Stone in the Sea

“What are you doing here?” I asked on a shaky breath.

He looked to the sky and exhaled heavily, before he leveled his gaze back on me. “The same thing I’m doing every night, Shea. Thinking about you and wondering why the hell I can’t stop.”
― A.L. Jackson, A Stone in the Sea

“I dropped to my knees and framed her unforgettable face in my hands.
Floored
“Don’t understand this, Shea. Not for a second. But I’m never going to be the same.”
― A.L. Jackson, A Stone in the Sea

“My entire body was alive with energy. With this energy, with whatever it was that connected me to this man, whatever it was that made me feel tied to him in an essential way, like nothing in heaven or hell could have stopped this moment from coming to pass.”
― A.L. Jackson, A Stone in the Sea

“Sebastian and Shea’s story continues in Drowning to Breathe, Summer 2015 To”
― A.L. Jackson, A Stone in the Sea