30 Quotes by Adrienne Young

I stood against the wind, watching the movement of the water around the coral islands. It pushed up the shelf gently, and if it was as calm beneath the surface as it was above, I could do the dive in just minutes

A look like thunder after a lightning strike lit on his face. Fear wound around every inch of his body and squeezed, and the feel of his hands on me sent a chill up my spine. There was something knowing in the way he looked at me. Something pulled at the knots in the net of lies we'd both told.

And no matter where I went, I’d never get home. Because home was a ship that was at the bottom of the sea, where my mother’s bones lay sleeping.

The only safety that existed was in being completely alone.

Nothing is free

It was the spot I'd sat every morning, waiting for my father's ship to return, even though he told me it wasn't coming back... it took me two years to believe him.

Nothing is free, they were things no one owed you. They were rules, keep the secret

I didn't belong on the land or on the docks or the cities that lay across the Narrows, The place I belonged was gone

It was terrifying- that feeling- like there was something tying me to him. Because if one of us fell into the darkness, the other would too.