All my life I had lived with a strong sense of morality. How do you give it up? How do you do things you thought you’d never do? Where do all the things you believed go, when all the supporting structure is found to be a myth? How do you
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“How did we find this view without a map?” “You’re just walking?” “There is a beauty to this, you know.” “To starvation? To hypothermia?” “To wandering aimlessly.”
― A Short Walk Through a Wide World
― A Short Walk Through a Wide World
“But Santiago said no, God chooses who he cares for, and he hadn’t chosen us. But, Santiago added, we shouldn’t be sad, God had too many rules anyway, and did we really want to follow so many rules?”
― Monstrilio
― Monstrilio
“And perhaps that’s the purpose of travel, to sift out the familiar from the foreign, to unearth those moments that remind us of home.”
― A Short Walk Through a Wide World
― A Short Walk Through a Wide World
“Art was a way of storing our brains in each other’s.”
― Martyr!
― Martyr!
“Scholars may study, historians may research, readers may read, but nobody knows more about today, this very day, than the person who lives it.”
― A Short Walk Through a Wide World
― A Short Walk Through a Wide World
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