The Captain's Daughter Quotes

“So much of life was about knowing the backstory.”
― Meg Mitchell Moore, The Captain's Daughter

“Sunsets, like childhood, were gone in a blink.”
― Meg Mitchell Moore, The Captain's Daughter

“When in doubt, choose brave.”
― Meg Mitchell Moore, The Captain's Daughter

“Her grief was unbearable, a weight pressing down from high above and settling on her shoulders, in her gut, in her soul, but she knew she had to bear it, and so she knew that she would”
― Meg Mitchell Moore, The Captain's Daughter

“This is what it meant to have children, this was coming for her one day, this was her future. You loved them and cared for them and they loved you back, conditionally, absolutely, so much love you thought you might drown in it, until the day they slammed the screen door and they got into someone else's truck and drove away”
― Meg Mitchell Moore, The Captain's Daughter

“And yet what full lives had begun and ended there. in fact, the little house seemed to know that; it seemed in the pale light offered by the moon, to draw its very own rhythmic, settled breaths.”
― Meg Mitchell Moore, The Captain's Daughter