I never heard the breath leave my body. Before sleep, the last sound to fill my ears was the beating of my heart, and I knew I was slipping past the tideland, going beneath the ocean and sinking away from What Rocks. The afternoon light had faded above; maybe the waves had curled high enough to extinguish the sun.

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Tideland, a novel by Mitch Cullum.

Just finished reading it, and now I really want to see the movie if only because Jeff Bridges plays Noah.