Vesper

“It’s a strange thing how you can spend years with some folks and never know them, yet, with others, you only need a handful of days to know them far beyond years.”
― Lynda Rutledge, West With Giraffes

“whenever I locked eyes with an animal I felt something more soulful than I ever felt from the humans I knew, and what I saw in that sprawled giraffe’s eye made me ache to the bone.”
― Lynda Rutledge, West With Giraffes

“Animals can tear your heart out. They can maim you. They can kill you dead on instinct alone and saunter into the next minute like it was nothing. But at least you know the ground rules with animals. You can count the cost of breaking the rules. You never know with people. Even the good can hurt you bad, and the bad, well, they’re going to hurt you but good.”
― Lynda Rutledge, West With Giraffes

“You can carry around a heavy load only for so long, though, before you’ve got to set it down,”
― Lynda Rutledge, West With Giraffes