So he'll keep dragging himself up this bridge between possible worlds, this rickety ruin of light, trying to imagine it might matter if he makes it to the other side.
The desire to go home that is a desire to be whole, to know where you are, to be the point of intersection of all the lines drawn through all the stars, to be the constellation-maker and the center of the world, that center called...
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Rebecca Solnit
It’s not so much the journey that’s important; as is the way that we treat those we encounter and those around us, along the way
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Jeremy Aldana
So I learned two things that night, and the next day, from him: the perfection of a moment, and the fleeting nature of it.
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Margaret George
No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.
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Heraclitus
Though the road's been rocky it sure feels good to me.
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Bob Marley
More Quotes By Garth Risk Hallberg
I couldn't understand; cheating was the one thing I'd told her all those years ago would be unforgivable. She knew, she said, but that was part of what had been confusing her, that I would even have told her that, as if she weren't an...
One day, he and William had been speeding toward each other; the next, careening away. But why?
As if it were possible for one person to care about another and still treat him or her like this.
But what if time worked the other way around? What if what his adolescent self had felt then was the ghost of his present one, sitting here on a sagging bench, beckoning him into his future?
And didn't time always slow, anyway, the closer you came to what you wanted?
