"You are one of the lucky ones who hold the melody in your heart. But be warned: it is a wandering song carried by the winds and the currents. It can turn you into a piece of driftwood that washes up on shore, but one day, when you find the place that is meant to be, you will take root." Chapter 2, pg. 16
"There's a strange sense of pleasure being beat to hell by a storm when you're on a ship that is not going to sink." Chapter 3, pg. 19
"I assured him I was no ax murderer, and he assured me that I would not be on his boat if I were. He told me he had actually gone to see with an ax murderer once, and he knew how they behaved." Chapter 3, pg......