Jean

“But once you sense that vastness, once something reveals it, hope emerges, whether you want it to or not, and it clings to you as stubbornly as lichen clings to rock.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“There was no audience, no one to perform for. There was no need to define myself. I became irrelevant.”
― Michael Finkel, The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit

“Most beautiful place on earth, and the most brutal. Sometimes I think God wanted to show us all His ways at once.”
― Jojo Moyes, The Giver of Stars

“Jefferies wrote, in his autobiography The Story of My Heart, that the type of life celebrated by society, one of hard work and unceasing chores and constant routine, does nothing but “build a wall about the mind.”
― Michael Finkel, The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit