Falling Bodies Quotes

“It's easy to lose yourself here," he said.
"If only," she said, and laughed, vying with the wind, trying to keep the hair out of her eyes. It had copper strands, he could see now, that bright hair. It seemed to hold the only light in the dusk of the day. "If only."
He nodded. If only.
And then they parted.”
― Andrew Mark, Falling Bodies

“Jackson brushed the sweep of his gaze along the flat horizon, and thought that he liked her voice. It was musical, soothing as the sound of Irish.”
― Andrew Mark, Falling Bodies

“She hadn't meant to come so close in all that vastness.”
― Andrew Mark, Falling Bodies

“Her bronze hair was whipped by the wind, blown like petals around her face. She was the only splash of color in the bone gray of the shore, and later he would think that he was like an infant in that instant, his eyes just beginning to see in something more than black and white, beginning to see in primary colors. Anyway, he was drawn to her, as a child reaches for the first flower he sees as being yellow. And he was surprised by this stirring towards her, surprised as if by seeing yellow for the first time.”
― Andrew Mark, Falling Bodies

“It seemed that all the time in the world had passed, and that none had passed at all.”
― Andrew Mark, Falling Bodies

“His routine had drawn him so deep inside himself that he feared the flood of memories her words on the postcard might unleash. He was afraid of wanting her again and all that it would mean. Finally, he read her postcard. He read it three times. He remembered how it had been.”
― Andrew Mark, Falling Bodies