“Walter Mitty: To see the world, things dangerous to come to, to see behind walls, draw closer, to find each other, and to feel. That is the purpose of life.”
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“Home is about the earth. Whether the earth open up to you. Whether it pull you so close the space between you and it melt and y’all one and it beats like your heart. Same time. Where”
― Sing, Unburied, Sing
― Sing, Unburied, Sing
“Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.”
― The Shadow of the Wind
― The Shadow of the Wind
“Some days later, I understood what he was trying to say, that getting grown means learning how to work that current: learning when to hold fast, when to drop anchor, when to let it sweep you up.”
― Sing, Unburied, Sing
― Sing, Unburied, Sing
“Can't nothing bother me when I got my hands in the dirt, he said. Like I'm talking to God with my fingers.”
― Sing, Unburied, Sing
― Sing, Unburied, Sing
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