"I hope that I get to know Martha Boyle next year (or this summer). I hope that we can be friends." Olive's Journal, Chapter 3, Page 5

"Martha couldn't shake Olive Barstow from her thoughts. She felt a stab of loneliness, the source of which she couldn't name." Chapter 5, Page 11

"Who knows, this might be our last summer together." Godbee, Chapter 12, Page 36

"She heard laughter from below. She sniffed once more, stretched like a cat, then went downstairs thinking, happily, I'm going to be a writer." Chapter 16, Page 51

"The scene with Mr. and Mrs. Manning had given her the chills, and yet she realized that any family, even the very best ones, had their moments. Awful, private moments." Martha referring to Jimmy's video, Chapter 21, Page 70

"I can't smell the ocean or run along the beach anymore either, but I remember what those things were like, too. Strange, I remember certain...