Float Plan

I'm starting to understand that some people come into your life when you need them, and go when it's time.

Eventually - and I say this from experience - you'll start building a new house beside the ruins of the old. When you're ready, you'll know.

But I’m starting to understand how sadness and happiness can live side by side within a heart. And how that heart can keep on beating.

The cure for anything is salt water—sweat, tears, or the sea. —ISAK DINESEN

Carla once told me the best way to make a decision is to flip a coin. She said that when the coin is in the air, you'll usually figure our what you truly want.

but kind is one of the easiest things to be.

But before you go down this road, you need to be certain what you want. If anyone will do, you need to find someone else.

The glue has only just dried on my broken heart and I’m offering him a hammer. But when he kisses my skin, just there, above my heart, I feel safe.

We are dead on our feet. And the dog hasn’t shit in three days, but we made it.

I'm disabled, not incapable.

The stages of grief are not linear. They are random and unpredictable, folding back on themselves until you begin mourning all over again.

You can't expect me to play rebound to a ghost. I won't do that.

She [my sister] loves me well enough, but she’s of the opinion that sailing is not a proper profession and, apparently, there’s a misery-to-fun ratio I’m failing to honor. She views my choices through her lens and has arrived at the conclusion that I’m doing life wrong, rather than considering I have a lens of my own.

I reckon if you stay in one place too long, you might start taking it for granted,” Keane says. “But if you keep moving, everything holds its wonder. At least that’s been my experience.

Ben was suffering from something over which he had little control. but I've been to that same dark place and I made a different choice. That doesn't mean I don't have bleak days when I hate myself and everyone else. But if I can promise you nothing else, it's that I intend to leave this world old, stooped. and with white hairs sticking out of my ears. And if having that image pressed into your brain hasn't given you second thoughts, well...I'm yours for as long as you want me.

I have a gaping hole where my life used to be.

But I'm starting to understand how sadness and happiness can live side by side within a heart. And how that heart can keep on beating

Thousands of years from now, a different woman might sail past alone; another people might settle there and make it a home. And, once more, Mother Nature puts my small life into perspective.

Why did you go somewhere I can't follow?

He pulls out a bottle of Irish whiskey and Keane inhales with reverence. "I take back every evil thought I've ever had about you, Eamon. You're the best brother in the world.

One day the stars will align...And you won't be thinking about Ben, and the next man -- whoever he may be -- is going to be one lucky bastard.

Have a care, Anna. I tend to fall for girls who say complimentary things about my mother.

Common decency should never be considered above and beyond.

...I have no interest in visiting his box in the ground when he will always have a place in my heart.

Eventually—and I say this from experience—you’ll start building a new house beside the ruins of the old. When you’re ready, you’ll know.

I don’t understand how you and your brother can be so kind.” “It’s uncomplicated, really,” Eamon says. “Our mother expected us to be good and our father put the fear of the Lord in us if we failed to meet her expectations.

There's a kind of jacked-up happiness that comes when you know your life is almost over, when the decision to end it becomes solid. It might be adrenaline. It might be relief. And if I had always felt like this, I might have climbed mountains or raced marathons.

She views my choices through h er lens and has arrived at the conclusion that I'm doing life wrong, rather than considering I have a lens of my own.

Eventually, you'll start building a new house beside the ruins of the old. When you're ready, you'll know.