“But this orange raft and its hidden notebook? They were a jolt to that misery. He wasn’t sure why. Maybe it was the idea that something – even a few pages of something – had endured a tragedy and crossed an ocean to find him. It had survived. And witnessing survival can make us believe in our own.”

“But this orange raft and its hidden notebook? They were a jolt to that misery. He wasn’t sure why. Maybe it was the idea that something – even a few pages of something – had endured a tragedy and crossed an ocean to find him. It had survived. And witnessing survival can make us believe in our own.”

— Mitch Albom