Julie Iles

“There must be a language that doesn't depend on words.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“I believe in the pursuit of happiness. Not its attainment, nor its final definition, but its pursuit. I believe in the journey, not the arrival; in conversation, not monologues; in multiple questions rather than any single answer. I believe in the struggle to remake ourselves and challenge each other in the spirit of eternal forgiveness, in the awareness that none of us knows for sure what happiness truly is, but each of us knows the imperative to keep searching. I believe in the possibility of surprising joy, of serenity through pain, of homecoming through exile.”
― Andrew Sullivan

“This isn't romance. This isn't a declaration of love or affirmation of friendship. This is something more.”
― Melina Marchetta, On the Jellicoe Road

“They had no past. They had no future. They just were.”
― Paullina Simons, The Bronze Horseman