Reckless (2011)
“He liked being on the water in the quiet, with pine trees arrowing up into the neon blue sky, and the furry deep purple knuckles of mountains embroidering zigzags down to the horizon. He liked the sound of water lapping against the boat, and the cry of gulls, and the mingled scents of wax and fish and the faint notes of leaf mold from shore.
He didn’t ordinarily take anyone with him. He liked to sail alone, to fall into the vastness of nature in complete solitude, but his brothers and mother ha...d nagged him so often about the dangers that he’d begun to feel a twinge of guilt about it.
Propped with her back against the bench, Ramona was an excellent companion. One of the things he liked about her was her singular lack of the need to chatter. She didn’t fill up quiet spaces with a lot of meaningless chitchat, like Lance would have, or most of the women Jake dated. When she spoke, it was to point something out or share an observation or muse aloud. It left Jake free to drift along without thinking, which was, in his opinion, the whole purpose of sailing.MoreLess
He didn’t ordinarily take anyone with him. He liked to sail alone, to fall into the vastness of nature in complete solitude, but his brothers and mother ha...d nagged him so often about the dangers that he’d begun to feel a twinge of guilt about it.
Propped with her back against the bench, Ramona was an excellent companion. One of the things he liked about her was her singular lack of the need to chatter. She didn’t fill up quiet spaces with a lot of meaningless chitchat, like Lance would have, or most of the women Jake dated. When she spoke, it was to point something out or share an observation or muse aloud. It left Jake free to drift along without thinking, which was, in his opinion, the whole purpose of sailing.MoreLess
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