Heloise Jacobs

“Now, because we have spent so many years convincing the younger people that we are helpless, they believe that we are no longer of use to this world.”
― Velma Wallis, Two Old Women: An Alaskan Legend of Betrayal, Courage and Survival

“What happens when we lose the things that anchor us? What if, instead of grasping at something to hold on to, we pull up our roots and walk away? Instead of trying to find the way back, we walk deeper and deeper into the woods, willing ourselves to get lost. In this place where nothing is recognizable. not the people or the language or the food, we are truly on our own. Eventually, we find ourselves unencumbered by the past or the future. Here is a fleeting glimpse of our truest self, our self in the present moment.”
― Rachel Friedman, The Good Girl's Guide to Getting Lost: A Memoir of Three Continents, Two Friends, and One Unexpected Adventure

“... consider letting nature's little discomforts in every now and then: the wind, the rain, and the dirt; the healing elements we've tried to abolish for a more comfortable way of life.”
― Elise Rose Richmond, Take It Outside

“I had wanted life not to bother me too much, and had succeeded—and how pitiful that was.”
― Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending