Lenore

“How can you hear your soul if everyone is talking?”
― Mary Doria Russell, Children of God

“They say in old stories that you can't discover new lands without losing sight of the shore for a long time.”
― Laurie Gough, Kite Strings of the Southern Cross: A Woman's Travel Odyssey (Travelers' Tales Footsteps

“If we believe that this particular pain is the one that will push the baby out of the womb and into our arms, we somehow try to make a place for that pain in our heart. Pain is still there: excruciating, terrible pain. But at the moment of birth, we rarely feel betrayal or rage; we somehow feel that this is simply pain that has come with life.”
― Wayne Muller, Legacy of the Heart: The Spiritual Advantage of a Painful Childhood

“When Cal hangs up he has the same empty feeling he always gets after talking to Alyssa these days, a sense that somehow, in spite of having been on the phone for all that time, they haven’t had a conversation at all; the whole thing was made of air and tumbleweed, nothing solid there. When she was a little kid she would trot along holding his hand and tell him everything, good and bad, it all poured straight from her heart to her mouth. He can’t remember when that changed.”
― Tana French, The Searcher