“I just want your voice aimed at me again. I want to absorb the direction of your eyes…” — Jennifer Elisabeth Copy Share Image
“I tried to push my body through his and completely disappear.” — Jennifer Elisabeth Copy Share Image
“Our form of compulsory schooling is an invention of the State of Massachusetts around 1850. It was resisted — sometimes with guns… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
“Martha’s Vineyard had fossil deposits one million centuries old. The northern reach of Cape Cod, however, on which my house sat, the… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“I kept waiting for the part where I’d finally know who I was — some flashing, neon moment of relief, but it… — Jennifer Elisabeth Copy Share Image
“I don’t ever want to hurt anyone, but I really wish there was something like a reset button on my life.” — Jennifer Elisabeth Copy Share Image
“I’ve grown up defined by this desperate, undeniable, ‘can’t breathe’ kind of space inside of myself and I’m afraid that the diagnosis… — Jennifer Elisabeth Copy Share Image
“I know that this process of ‘me changing my life’ doesn’t just end once I set fire to this list of things… — Jennifer Elisabeth Copy Share Image
“I could watch him do this until morning — never asking questions and never interrupting his work. I worship quietly — his… — Jennifer Elisabeth Copy Share Image
“I ruin everything. I think that a bullet must have passed through my heart when I was very young, causing me to… — Jennifer Elisabeth Copy Share Image
“At Home, by Marcia J. Monbleau, was published in 1994, to celebrate the 300th anniversary of Harwich. This is a must read,… — Fran Larkin Copy Share Image
“It feels like the world is folding up around me, like origami paper, and I’m trapped inside of its breathless center.” — Jennifer Elisabeth Copy Share Image
“So much has been done to my body, and still, somehow, not enough.” — Jennifer Elisabeth Copy Share Image
“My house completed, and tried and not found wanting by a first Cape Cod year, I went there to spend a fortnight… — Henry Beston Copy Share Image
“For so many years, I couldn’t understand why every time I thought that someone finally loved me, like… for real, they would… — Jennifer Elisabeth Copy Share Image
“I look out into the water and up deep into the stars. I beg the sparkling lanterns of light to cure me… — Jennifer Elisabeth Copy Share Image
“CHAPTER ONE A Boy at the Window FOR A LONG TIME AFTER THAT SUMMER, the four Penderwick sisters still talked of Arundel.… — Jeanne Birdsall Copy Share Image
“He was a district attorney in Pennsylvania. I was a writer on Cape Cod. We had been privates in the war, infantry… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“I love him in ways that I can’t explain to other people. They don’t understand… it’s not their fault.” — Jennifer Elisabeth Copy Share Image
“Cape Cod is the bared and bended arm of Massachusetts. The shoulder is at Buzzard's Bay; the elbow at Cape Mallebarre; the… — Thoreau Hd Copy Share Image
“Don’t worry if people think you’re crazy. You are crazy. You have that kind of intoxicating insanity that lets other people dream… — Jennifer Elisabeth Copy Share Image
“I feel a resurgence of my 6-year-old self… that little warrior, goddess of a girl reminding me of who I was when… — Jennifer Elisabeth Copy Share Image
“It would take another twenty-seven years before the first government-authorized lifesaving stations were erected on Cape Cod. In all, nine stations were… — Michael J. Tougias Copy Share Image
