Lyon Terry

“Two people have to choose and be chosen, and, most unlikely of all, these choices must happen at roughly the same time.”
― Sophie Elmhirst, A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck

“when I went out to get the newspaper from the mailbox in the morning. This trivial task is, in my opinion, completely underrated as a natural experience. You have just risen, and in this untarnished state you walk outside. The air wakes you up. Or nature does.”
― Torbjørn Ekelund, A Year in the Woods: Twelve Small Journeys into Nature

“But you had to be who you were to get to who you are. Every page in the story is successive; they’re all numbered and bound like a book.”
― R. Eric Thomas, Here for It; Or, How to Save Your Soul in America: Essays

“maybe the difference between memories and recollections is that memories mean something for the person who has them; they represent moments in the past that have had a particularly formative impact. We like to think—at least, I like to think—that such memories tell us something about who we are deep down and who we wish to be.”
― Torbjørn Ekelund, A Year in the Woods: Twelve Small Journeys into Nature