This book was so poignant and poetic and Augusta Trobaugh did an excellent job of capturing the different voices represented in the characters. Here are my picks:
"Because the sky that's over where the river and the ocean come together is very beautiful - very different - in a special way. And I just can't seem to get it right on the paper."
Mr. Otto wiped his brush and put it away before he responded. "Perhaps," he ventured, "that's why it is so beautiful - because it is beyond capturing."
Somehow, it was all becoming more than she could think about, so that she felt as if she were dividing into two - like an amoeba - one cell of her wanting nothing more than to be with him forever, the other crying for solitude so that she could taste this most delicious reality. Every wonderful drop of it. Feel every feeling. Taste every joy.
High above them, the endless heavens, the multitude of stars, some of them so far away that they could only guess their glitterings, and here they stood on the sandy bottom of eternity, and at the last, it was only his firm hand that kept her from soaring like an everlasting meteor into the heavens.
"We've all got funny things about us. Places inside us that's specially tender - little sore spots, you might say."
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