Sarah Graves

“winter in downeast Maine makes summer seem like something that only happens to other, more fortunate people, probably on some other planet.”

— Sarah Graves

“But even though Victor wasn't the sun in my sky anymore, he was still the moon and several important stars.”

— Sarah Graves

“I do not think money is the root of all evil, but I know it makes an effective fertilizer.”

— Sarah Graves

“You might not notice the moon very much. White and silent, it shines a cold light that is merely a ghost of…

— Sarah Graves

“When I came here, it stunned me at first to realize how much what I had thought of as civilization was really…

— Sarah Graves

“Just breathing in and out suddenly seemed to require a series of massive, separately considered decisions, as if each small action of…

— Sarah Graves

“For some things, a decent downeast silence was the only good response, at least in the immediate aftermath.”

— Sarah Graves

“it’s not the thought that counts. In this world, it’s the action that counts.”

— Sarah Graves

“life is risk. The only choice is, are you the taker or the taken?”

— Sarah Graves

“But the media were about to go cold turkey on the whole latter half of the twentieth century, and the shock was…

— Sarah Graves

“Tools, check. Sandwiches and coffee, check. Work clothes, hip boots, unbridled optimism entirely out of proportion to our experience with the task…

— Sarah Graves