“I experienced that sinking feeling you get when you know you have conned yourself into doing something difficult and there's no going back.”
― Tracks: A Woman's Solo Trek Across 1700 Miles of Australian Outback
― Tracks: A Woman's Solo Trek Across 1700 Miles of Australian Outback
“And there are new kinds of nomads, not people who are at home everywhere, but who are at home nowhere. I was one of them ”
― Desert Places
― Desert Places
“La vita é una tale fatica, bambino. E una guerra che si ripete ogni giorno, e i suoi momenti di gioia sono parentesi brevi che si pagano un prezzo crudele.”
― Letter to a Child Never Born
― Letter to a Child Never Born
“We speak not only to tell other people what we think, but to tell ourselves what we think. Speech is a part of thought.”
― Seeing Voices
― Seeing Voices
“He swam and he wept.”
― August Heat
― August Heat
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