4 Quotes by Ellen Malphrus

Know this, child. You must always choose life. Even when the burden of heartache seems too heavy a load you must seek the forward path.

Words themselves prod and confuse and may not have truth in them, but in stories truth can always be found.

They speak of tides and rigging and lines, just as sea reapers have gathered in thousands of ports for thousands of generations while the big earth slowly tilts oceans out and in to the beckoning moon.

Over and over again the marlin hurls herself from the sea, completely out of the water, flailing from side to side, then crashing once more, sending spray into the air like a geyser. Her eyes are the size of the saucer Padgett had set his coffee cup on that morning, forever ago. They aren’t looking at him, the eyes. They are searching wildly for what has gone wrong with the world, the world that had been hers until she felt the sting of a hook and the weight of horror behind it.