24 Quotes by Ann Howard Creel

A meaningless life. More than anything, she had wanted to be useful. She had wanted to better herself and those around her. She had wanted to live as one with the sea in her soul. And she had wanted love. She had thought love would save her. She had hoped she would be worthy. She had dreamed of redemption. And for a time she believed she had found it all.

The sea was a landscape of longing, she thought, a landscape of ceaseless change.

All over the world, people are looking at the same stars, the same moon, the same sun, every day. Somehow, I didn’t feel so isolated when I thought of it that way.

Could such happiness come out of the unexpected? Or was unexpected happiness the best happiness of all?

Silver liked people to a point; he liked to hear them tell of some important news or share a laugh, but then solitude was always calling him back. Too much contact with people took things away from him – his energy, his soul, his freedom.

Why must you say such eccentric things?” “Maybe I’m eccentric.” “It’s not something most people aspire to.” “I’m not most people.

Separately we might have sunk, but together we moved beyond bloodlines and nationalities and backgrounds and formed a vessel that somehow stayed afloat.

You hungry?” asked Silver, who was thus nicknamed because his hair had turned old when he was but twenty-five.

As a child, when I first heard the story of Creation, I’d closed my eyes and pictured the earth as a ball rolling off the palm of God and into dark space, then drifting around until it found its home in sunny orbit. Never perfect, but ever spinning, and holding on to her course, despite it all.