Swan Light Quotes

“Swan light was gone. It had been there and then it had fallen. It was stone and then it was story.”
― Phoebe Rowe, Swan Light

“She always said lighthouses exist because people are so afraid of the sea that they forget to be afraid of the shore.”
― Phoebe Rowe, Swan Light

“But shipwrecks were rarely like that, she’d learned later, proud and upright, perched whimsically on the seafloor. Wrecks were wrecked, sure and violent. Shattered and flattened, rotting edges under sand. There was no lovely way for something meant to conquer the sea to instead be torn apart by it.”
― Phoebe Rowe, Swan Light

“below it. Learn about the people too. Not just the wrecks they leave behind.”
― Phoebe Rowe, Swan Light

“There were as many parts of a story as there were people who remembered it.”
― Phoebe Rowe, Swan Light

“It was the story of the wrecks that hadn't happened, of the lives people got to keep living because of a light in the darkness ...”
― Phoebe Rowe, Swan Light

“And seeing it from the sea captured none of the heat, the slick smell, the beehive whirring of the clockwork mechanism in the room below as it kept the lens turning, so strong it shook the floor. In the middle of the night, the only things awake here were the keeper, the tower, and the”
― Phoebe Rowe, Swan Light

“If you don’t like the weather out your front door, go look out the back.”
― Phoebe Rowe, Swan Light

“Sometimes I feel like I have to do everything quickly. To make up for what she didn’t get to do. To find things she didn’t get to find. And if that means rushing into things, great. At least it means moving.”
― Phoebe Rowe, Swan Light

“father, Arthur. “What?” Clara said loudly, and Swan jerked from his thoughts as the room fell quiet. Clara turned to look at Swan, then back at Abigail. “He asked you to help move the lighthouse, and you said no?” “It’s a bit more complicated than that,” Abigail said. Her voice was smooth, but Swan saw her hand shake slightly on her glass of water. “Relocating a lighthouse is a delicate and expensive process, especially one as precarious as Swan Light.” “It’s been there for years,” Clara said. “You had plenty of time before it got precarious. But now you’ll suddenly be able to find the money if Mr. Swan helps you find this deed you’re looking for?”
― Phoebe Rowe, Swan Light