31 Quotes by Abby Sunderland

All the ingenuity, all the high-tech gear, all the jury-rigging sometimes the sea would rip it all away until there was only you, the Creator, and His mercy.

Terror ripped through me as I was falling, falling, falling toward the sea.

If a big wave came at the wrong moment, it would sweep me off into forty-eight-degree water, where I might last twenty minutes. Drowning quickly might be better.

The terrifying physics of going up-mast in heavy seas are inescapable.