The Sea Ain't Mine Alone Quotes

“James Campbell tastes like the cool layer of wet sand buried just beneath the top layer baked in the sun. Like the first burst of ocean water at the start of a new day across his bare skin. Like soft, warm heat.”
― C.L. Beaumont, The Sea Ain't Mine Alone

“The answer is so blindingly simple in retrospect that Sydney wants to kick himself. He gazes through the palm trees at this hidden sailor, currently standing alone behind a lifeguard stand and smiling down at his feet like he just had his dreams handed to him from the wet palms of the sea herself. This man who stared death in the face and said, "Not today.”
― C.L. Beaumont, The Sea Ain't Mine Alone

“And he suddenly thinks of what it would be like to draw Jimmy Campbell into his arms, letting him rest his weary skin against his own too-tall, too-bizarre body, feeling the quiet strength and competence in his forearms, his shoulder blades, his kneecaps, the little salty sliver of skin behind his ear. Fingertips which had gripped a smoking gun, touched blood, and paddled furiously on a surfboard onto a plat sea.”
― C.L. Beaumont, The Sea Ain't Mine Alone

“For the life of him, he can't remember the color of those eyes.”
― C.L. Beaumont, The Sea Ain't Mine Alone