"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. 24

"I think darkness is the thing humans fear the most, for it takes away our...