“It hadn’t been so long ago, yet sometimes she felt that she’d been an altogether different person back then.”

“EVERYONE MAKES MISTAKES, EVEN THE PERSONS WE LOVE.”

“More than anything, he wanted to return to the house with the same look of peace that he’d seen on Pastor Harris’s face, but he trudged through the sand, he couldn’t help feeling like an amateur, someone searching for God’s truths like a child searching for seashells.”

“If pinpointing God’s presence were really that simple, then he supposed the beaches would be more crowded in the mornings. They would be filled with people on their own quests, instead of people jogging or walking their dogs or fishing in the surf.”

“Strange, what being forced to slow down could do to a person.”