"The bottle was dropped overboard on a warm summer evening, a few hours before the rain began to fall." Prologue, p. 7

"And it was there, after 26 days and 738 miles, that it ended its journey." Prologue, p. 10

"It had started with her alone, and that was the same way she wanted it to end." Chap. 1, p. 12

"At night when I am alone, I call for you, and whenever my ache seems to be the greatest, you still seem to find a way to return to me." Chap. 1, p. 34

"She wanted a little color by the time she got back to work, if for no other reason than to look as though she had taken some time to do absolutely nothing." Chap. 2, p. 52

"Where are you? And why, I wonder as I sit alone in a darkened house, have we been forced apart?" Chap. 3, p. 77

"The day she discovered the...