The Shore Quotes

“Ember was the last glow in the dark after the riot of flames. Ember didn’t demand you do anything else but sit with it and watch until it was gone. Ember still emitted warmth for an hour. Ember said, Don’t leave me alone. In the embers you stay and huddle closer together as the heat sinks into the ground. When ember went away it wasn’t all at once, but gradual, until it was safe to sleep or to leave.”
― Katie Runde, The Shore

“Where you are from is everything: an empire and an ending, a temporary joy and a permanent resilience. Where you were from doesn’t exist anymore, and you’ll wonder forever if it ever really did.”
― Katie Runde, The Shore

“She would remember this as a summer of unnameable sadness, but also as a summer she was proud to have moved through with a nascent, uncertain wisdom she felt swelling inside her.”
― Katie Runde, The Shore

“The weeks between Labor Day and the beginning of October are a best-kept secret: warm and calm, bright and empty.”
― Katie Runde, The Shore

“Ember was the last glow in the dark after the riot of flames. Ember didn’t demand you do anything else but sit with it and watch until it was gone. Ember still emitted warmth for an hour.”
― Katie Runde, The Shore

“Ember said, Don’t leave me alone. In the embers you stay and huddle closer together as the heat sinks into the ground. When ember went away it wasn’t all at once, but gradual, until it was safe to sleep or to leave.”
― Katie Runde, The Shore

“So now we start again, uncertain and untethered, weary”
― Katie Runde, The Shore

“She was starting to understand that life was too short to be a tiny, tight-lipped version of yourself. But the rules the shut uuuuup girls followed were still the ones she knew best, even if she hated them; you had to rearrange the pieces of what you already knew before you went inventing new ones for yourself.”
― Katie Runde, The Shore

“Your blessings and your curses often come in the same package. —Bruce Springsteen, “Born to Run”
― Katie Runde, The Shore

“At a concert, you could look around at all the strangers and think: We love this band, yes, we’re the same, in this one particular way. We’re so glad we’re here in this dark room that we will scream with joy and sing along to the songs we know by heart, and this is the one place in the whole world right now where you can sing with the people who wrote these songs. What magic.”
― Katie Runde, The Shore