The Sapphire Sea Quotes

“She didn’t have to say that it wasn’t our time, that a whole new world had opened up for her in Mexico. She didn’t have to say that she was just beginning her journey, while I was already weary from mine because of all those I’d lost along the way.” — The Sapphire Sea”
― Bobby Underwood, The Sapphire Sea

“I held her in my arms and rocked her back and forth. I cried until I threw up. Then I went back to rocking my darling again, weeping beneath the early morning Mexican sun.”
― Bobby Underwood, The Sapphire Sea

“Outside the cabin, a dull pop resounded in the quietude. As Zachariah’s bio-organic soul plummeted into eternal darkness, he thought of sparrows, and wondered if God had seen him fall…”
― Bobby Underwood, The Sapphire Sea

“I became mad for a time, wanting to dig her up just to be certain she was dead. Once, I even had the shovel in my hand. But then I knew I could not let her suffer the indignity of a man who had lost his mind to grief and loss. Not a man at all, really, but a bio-organic whose soul might never recover from her quick and sudden departure from my life just as we’d found an avenue for happiness.”
― Bobby Underwood, The Sapphire Sea

“It was still dark. I grabbed the Howzer by the bed and crept quietly from the bedroom. I saw her through the screen door and laid down the gun, my soul in turmoil. As she stood silently crying beneath the starry Spanish sky, I suddenly realized she wouldn’t make it back from here.”
― Bobby Underwood, The Sapphire Sea