She was all the world a beach, laid out in a thousand story grains of sand. Her thoughts, the constant crashing of waves along the surface of her life. Her beauty, the gradient of colors created by the setting sun on the horizon. Her strength, the tide pulling the ocean over her shoreline like a blanket to comfort the coast. She was all the world a beach, laid out in a thousand story grains of sand. And I wanted to read them all.