“Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.”
― Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World
― Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World
“What is it about tears that should be so terrifying? the touch of God is marked by tears...deep, soul-shaking tears, weeping...it comes when that last barrier is down and you surrender yourself to health and wholeness”
― The Cross and the Switchblade
― The Cross and the Switchblade
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
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“Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.”
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“Come to the book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it and draw your own map.”
― Hearts in Atlantis
― Hearts in Atlantis
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