“We are so blinkered by progress, so preoccupied with where we want to go and how fast we can travel, that many of us have lost the ability to simply stop.”

“Life. Its about adventure, of having a dream and following it.”

“Eventually, after much dreaming, the dream no longer suffices. You have to physically be there.”

“Be patient, persistent and above all, believe.”

“We seek not for forgiveness, but the freedom and time to do more than exist.”

“Dive deep and make your discovery.”

“These poor people have learned to endure day to day economic agony. Its routine in daily life for them. They are so accustomed to facing economic pain that poverty doesnt hurt them anymore. Extreme...”

“The flowers must have been the latest generation of perennials, whose ancestors were first planted by a woman who lived in the ruins when the ruins were a raw, unpainted house inhabited by herself ...”

“The life of man is so short that ordinary people simply cannot afford to be born”

“Despite your best efforts, people are going to be hurt when it's time for them to be hurt.”

“At the end of the day it's about how much you can bear, how much you can endure. Being together, we harm nobody; being apart, we extinguish ourselves.”

“Life is not a PG feel-good movie. Real life often ends badly. Literature tries to document this reality, while showing us it is still possible for us to endure nobly.”

“Seek a slower, simpler life.”

“There is no such thing as escape after all, only an exchange of one set of difficulties for another. It wasn't Mark or the farm or marriage I was trying to shake loose from but my own imperfect sel...”

“Talking won't change it. But sometimes it was what she wanted most, to tell someone; often, though, she just wanted to escape those horrid feelings, to escape herself, so there was no pain, no fear...”