J.L. Alexander > Quotes

“When I look back now and think of the weeks we spent campin' in Tuolumne Meadows or the Pines, they were some of the best days of my whole life. I just didn't know it at the time.”
― J.L. Alexander, The Miles Between

“Life is messy and it spills over the edges of any box you try to put it in.”
― J.L. Alexander, The Miles Between

“When you call an opinion a truth, nobody can debate it with you anymore. They can only insult you. Where I come from, we know a bit about that. We spent thirty years finding out what it costs when everyone owns their own truth.”
― J.L. Alexander, The Miles Between

“If you have written yourself brave, and you have read that passage over and over, you will believe it – and you will stand tall against even the fiercest winter winds. But if you have written yourself beaten, you'll find yourself cowering before clouds that have not yet begun to gather.”
― J.L. Alexander, The Miles Between

“It is the small moments in our life that accumulate like grains of sand, and it is their collective weight that forms the bulk of our existence”
― J.L. Alexander, The Miles Between

“I think everyone's got a hollow place inside, and we all fill it differently. Some with work or love or drink. Some with the cards or exercise or the company of strangers. Some in a way that heals the void and some in a way that deepens it. The trick is to learn which is which.”
― J.L. Alexander, The Miles Between

“I suspect that as time passes, we humans will grow to miss the feeling of boredom like an old friend. We'll miss that kind of slow and wandering thought that once led to poems and road trips and long walks to nowhere in particular.”
― J.L. Alexander, The Miles Between

“Ideas about people are dangerous things. They don't change or grow or surprise you with unexpected kindness. They exist only in the form in which you hold them. And they are much easier to resent or begrudge than the living and breathing human being they represent.”
― J.L. Alexander, The Miles Between

“There is no greater thief of the present moment than a phone.”
― J.L. Alexander, The Miles Between

“Because some encounters are never meant to be permanent. They are perfect in their brevity and it is their fleeting nature that gives them meaning. Lucky is the man who realizes this; lucky is the man who loves every moment for what it is and never wishes for it to be any more.”
― J.L. Alexander, The Miles Between

“But life doesn't work that way. It offers no rewrites and no second drafts.”
― J.L. Alexander, The Miles Between