hold tight

“He would never quite understand what made him go to the iron rail, hold tight with one hand and lean over the edge to look past the jut of land, beyond the square-jawed cliffs, down onto die storm-swept beach.”

The Lightkeeper

“Amid my own modern whirl of domestic duties and career demands, I hold tight to those same inoffensive pleasuresgolf and eatingas if they were two small rafts roped together in a roiling sea.”

Simon & Schuster: The Italian Summer

“He experienced a sensation so subtle he would never quite understand what made him go to the iron rail, hold tight with one hand and lean out over the edge to look past the jut of land, beyond the square-jawed cliffs, down onto the storm-swept beach.”

The Lightkeeper