The tides rolled up to crash against the shore while we sat feet from one another with the remnants of all we’d left unsaid driving us apart.

Because if I fell any deeper for the way his eyes crinkled with his smile or his habit of tapping on his nose to emphasize a point, my ship would be sunk.

What bothered me the most was the hesitation in his voice when he said that— like he was running out of time.

If you’re supposed to work with someone, I’d recommend not getting all hot and bothered with them the night before. The word of the day was “tense.

The choice lay out for me. Stay on land or plunge into the icy depths of the sea. I always chose the sea.

He looked so frustrated and perfectly serious, and yet here we were talking about his missing seal pelt.

We’d never talked about his parents, like he was some underwater Peter Pan.

From the way his face lit with curiosity to the slight tilt of his jaw, even the lingering scent of brine and breeze gave him away.

Ignorance is the master key of all evils.

So, to sum up my room-clearing generalizations, men are in comedy to break rules.

In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk bravery is a rampart of defense.

When you take a shower in space, you have to press the water onto your body to clean yourself, and then you gotta vacuum it off.

She transforms once again into someone carefree, and I transform into someone whose only care is her.

Touch the earth, love the earth, honour the earth, her plains, her valleys, her hills, and her seas; rest your spirit in her solitary places.

I can say, "I don't have anything I regret!" But I can also say, "I can go forward in my life the way it is and I don't think I'll accrue any future regrets."

I mean, we're all trying to find out who the hell we are, aren't we?

It generally takes about 10 years to become an overnight sensation.