Purdy Patrick

“When you are moving toward an objective,” said Petrus, “it is very important to pay attention to the road. It is the road that teaches us the best way to get there, and the road enriches us as we walk its length. You can compare it to a sexual relationship: the caresses of foreplay determine the intensity of the orgasm. Everyone knows that.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Pilgrimage

“And they were committed. To the point of jail, which is a large commitment. And to the point of death, which hovers always near a heretic in a police state and which turns to stare a Deep South Negro directly in the face at that moment when he utters that word so long taboo for Negroes in America, “No.”
― Howard Zinn, THE INDISPENSIBLE ZINN

“Books,” John told her, a few days into his stay, “are a technology for importing, housing, and spreading ideas. Sometimes an idea takes a whole narrative and cast of characters to make itself understood. Sometimes it just needs one line, such as ‘Manuscripts don’t burn.”
― Kaliane Bradley, A Visit to the Husband Archive

“As Winnie the Pooh says, ‘How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.”
― Suzanne Redfearn, Call of the Camino