Summer's Child Quotes
"Life was slowly returning to the Outer Banks as vacationers trickled into the coastal communities, and it seemed the air and sea grew warmer by the hour."
"Hard to believe. Shelly still seemed like a child to her."
"She left the restaurant with Andy, wondering how he felt about her quitting."
"She pulled into the driveway of the Sea Shanty, parking behind Chloe’s car."
"She knew what that meant: accidents, heart attacks, near drownings."
"The baby had been the talk of the neighborhood all that day, and for many days to come."
"This baby was alive because of her. She moved, she breathed, because of her."
"I’m going to lie down for a while. Call me when Shelly gets here and we can do the cake, okay?"
"It was a bit after eight o’clock as she drove home from the station."
"Sometimes the mysteries are solved during the research itself, like the time we figured out who had murdered a little boy, even though the police and FBI had been on the case for years and had turned up nothing."
"I found her on the beach right in front of her cottage. Cindy could have just walked out her back door, dropped the baby close to the ocean, expecting the waves to wash it out to sea, and walked back into her cottage. Job done."
"She’s just a little…ingenuous, if you know what I mean. I don’t know her well, I’ve only spoken to her a few times, but she seems very trusting in an innocent sort of way."
"Shelly is still a little girl in so many ways."
"I can forgive anyone for doing anything," Shelly said with certainty. Father Sean always said that forgiveness was the most important quality a person could possess.
"I don’t think she needs a placement," she said. "But she does still need me. Pete was offered a job in Raleigh, and he wanted me to go with him, which, of course, meant leaving Shelly behind, and I couldn’t consider that."
"I get seizures," Shelly said. "Do you think it’s because I was left on the beach?"
"Well, it’s not an arm or a leg that hurts," she said. "It’s actually all of me. My body and my head and my heart. They all hurt from not knowing who my real mother is."
"It seemed like something she needed to hear."
"I know it’s crazy, but I’ve been attracted to you from the very beginning."
"You owe him a great deal, Grace. Have you thought about that? About how much he’s done for you?"
"I was the last person with her. If I’d lost someone close to me, I’d want to know what their last minutes had been like."
"You can’t get away from that night, can you?"
"Maybe it would help you, Daria. Maybe you’d stop being haunted by it all."
"I think it’s neat that he’s interested in you."
"It's been bothering me all day... Someone was a little crazy that night. I guess it could have been my mother as well as anyone else."
"We might receive no more than a few sprinkles and some harmless wind. Or, the water could cover Kill Devil Hills, destroying the beaches and pulling the cottages out to sea."
"You’re just one of those women who loves too much."
"I have the ability to put his doubts to rest, completely and forever, but there was no way I could tell him what I knew."
"It’s not like I lied... I just never said anything about what was going on."
"Despite her concern for Shelly, Daria felt her body begin to uncoil and relax."
"I thought I was giving her everything she needed. I didn’t know she needed more than what I could provide."
"Let's not get ahead of ourselves, here. There's time."
"I guess there's not much mystery left between the two of you, huh?"
"I was probably right with my first guess. It was most likely a tourist."
"You were right about me being a caretaker. Glorianne needed that. Grace did, too. You don’t. And I think it’s time I broke out of that role."
"I wished it were winter instead of summer, so I could cover my body more easily with heavy clothing."
"She’s right," Bonnie’s voice came from somewhere beside her. "It might be harder for you to give it up…give her up…if you see her."
"I don’t think she really cares about Shelly; sometimes she’s even cruel to her."
"Is there any chance…any chance at all that you would move to California? With Shelly, I mean, even though I know it would be hard for her to leave the Outer Banks."
"I’d wanted that baby so badly, now she just wanted to be free of it."