Hot Springs Quotes

“Now smiling had been something almost alien to me just a few weeks ago. But over this short period of time, I had rediscovered this art thanks to that noble emotion of love. Joy that had been bottled up inside since childhood now overcame me from deep within just like the healing water reaching folks at hot springs from regions deep below the surface.”
― Vivek Pereira, Indians in Pakistan

“I’ve seen it all in Nevada, Kansas before that, and the War of Northern Aggression before that. People do all sorts of nasty things. And while I used to believe that there was something profoundly wrong about the human condition—sin passed on from the first man and that only the grace of God in Jesus Christ could make everything right, the standard explanation in churches Mormon to Methodist—it didn’t take me long to learn that Christians and non-Christians, women and men, young and old were all capable of doing the worse things a human being might imagine, and then some.

From my upcoming novel, BATHHOUSE ROW, (available this fall).”
― Gregg Edwards Townsley

“Naked in the moonlight, we peered over the edge. I grabbed her hand and we swung our arms back and forth. With the third swing, we jumped together—a frozen ephemeral moment, suspended in air, the world felt perfect. I’d have paused gravity and time right there to take it all in if I could’ve.”
― Colin Clancy, Ski Bum

“Night bathing feels different to that done in the early morning. More meditative, a time to reflect rather than refresh. Enveloped in warm, still water, with just the scent of witch hazel or winter jasmine carried by the steam, the body, if not the spirit, feels at prayer.”
― Nigel Slater, A Thousand Feasts: Small Moments of Joy… A Memoir of Sorts