“Does the plain, simple beauty of life get buried under societys so-called required daily activities or is that just true of me? No, I know Im not alone in that feeling. We all get caught up in the ...”

“Just make sure the day doesnt pass without sayin whats in your heart. Sometimes you pass up those chances and theyre gone forever.”

“As an adult I had mastered the art of looking without seeing and listening without hearing and eating without tasting and maybe even existing without living.”

“Its a funny thing, one day youre living and the next day youre not sometimes, whether you have plans or not. Wishes and wants get trumped by the reaper every time. I dont even know if I would want ...”

“I had always been a boy in this place, and many of the trees and rocks and streams had been old men when I knew them. Some had died. All had changed. I knew that. I had changed the most.”

“The world bein so small aint always a good thing for those of us who aint searchin for new and different stuff.”

“He knew very well that his memory detested him, that it did nothing but slander him; therefore he tried not to believe it and to be more lenient toward his own life. But that didn't help: he took n...”

“All those practice fights when it was just us, two children pretending to be soldiers. Or two soldiers pretending to be children.”

“Whether beautiful or terrible, the past is always a ruin.”