21 Quotes by Julia Drake

It was the first time I'd said ‘survival’ aloud. Sam had survived. He’d survived, and I’d survived, too. Now we would survive together.

I had never had friends before, not like this.

Why did adventures have to happen away from home? Couldn’t the puzzle be an adventure, too?

Survival was its own quest: we needed to choose to survive over and over again. We had to wash up on shore, and we had to choose to keep washing up every single day. We had to let the survival accrue, pebble after pebble, building a beach from a million tiny moments until suddenly we stopped, looked around, and thought, on a Saturday in Maine, I'm glad we're here.

We had a long way to go, but by then we’d be so knowledgeable, so wise, that between the two of us, we’d be able to name all the constellations.

I imagined her springing from her father’s head, fully formed, like Athena.

We’d be a love out of time and space, ethereal, destined, and her dreams would take shape around my song. I’d teach the hills to say her name, and the winds and the trees and water, too, so that the elements would love her, so that everywhere she went, no matter where, she’d hear the world crying out for, calling over and over: “Liv Stone, Liv Stone, Liv Stone!

In the fog, she kissed me once, very quickly, and it felt like courage.

Sounds like you'd do a bunch," Liv breathed.Beneath the brim of her hat, I found her eyes."You would not rest," I said.