"I love 'The Awakening,' because I think there is nothing lovelier than walking into the water and never returning.
"But, it's a suicide," I replied."
"Well, what better way to end your life, especially if you love the water and the sea that much."
Jack and Abigail
Though it's far from a traditional romance novel, it is a story steeped in and twirling around the subject of love. But really now, what book isn't?
Two glass birds await me on a ship sailing around the Baltic Sea. I imagine them delicate and small, easily chipped or even shattered, and think of then often, hoping they survive all the travel they've yet to do before reaching their California home.