“And this is what I want to say: my memories, my impressions come with me. I don’t know about yours, but my reality goes with me wherever I go and leaves behind its capacity to reinvent itself, to develop.”
― The Murmur of Bees
― The Murmur of Bees
“In spite of it all, the sun rose and set each day—though even that sometimes disconcerted her. Life went on. The seasons came and went in an eternal cycle that would not stop for anything,”
― The Murmur of Bees
― The Murmur of Bees
“The longer you live, the more you’ll see that the inside of everybody is a lot like the inside of everybody else. If you’re feeling something, more likely than not it’s just what anyone would feel.”
― Take Me with You
― Take Me with You
“As ever, whether fast or slow, time always passes, and grain of sand by grain of sand, every date arrives.”
― The Murmur of Bees
― The Murmur of Bees
“I didn’t think less of the men who couldn’t bear their wounds quietly; they were tossed into a war of other men’s making. But the men who suffered in silence were those who had formed a close companionship with pain.”
― Across the Winding River
― Across the Winding River
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