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“Still, she knows one thing for certain: never judge a relationship unless you are the one wrapped up in its arms.”
“Whether we are at Cafe Gratitude or Carl’s Jr, whether we are in a cathedral or in a nightclub, whether we are inside of a mosque or on the metro, every single moment is a sacred moment. A moment f...”
“The summit is believed to be the object of the climb. But its true object—the joy of living—is not in the peak itself, but in the adversities encountered on the way up. There are valleys, cliffs, s...”
“There are things known—things experienced, felt, and understood—that words hold no power to convey. Attempting to do so only dilutes their substance and does them injustice.”
“She smiles, and her eyes look as if they can see back into her memory, into all the things that have gone into making a person what they are.”
“I have learned that the swiftest traveller is he that goes afoot. I say to my friend, Suppose we try who will get [to Fitchburg from Concord] first. The distance is thirty miles; the fare ninety ce...”
“Don’t allow past experiences to be forgotten.Hold them close.”
“I’m not sure what to say about struggle except that it feels like a long, dark tunnel with no light at the end. You never notice until it’s over the ways it has changed you, and there is no going b...”
“He’d had a few sordid gay experiences. He’d wrestled with an obese neighbour boy in Clermont-Ferrand when he was fourteen and last year had been approached in the Clermont-Ferrand train station loo...”
“In a forest of a hundred thousand trees, no two leaves are alike. And no two journeys along the same path are alike.”
