“Things did not need to be shiny or new or perfect to be worth having”
― Nowhere for Very Long: The Unexpected Road to an Unconventional Life
― Nowhere for Very Long: The Unexpected Road to an Unconventional Life
“I would go so far as to say that as human beings, we are less of a who and more of a when.”
― Atmosphere
― Atmosphere
“who cares what word you use? Some aunts are completely irrelevant, and some aunts have been there since the day their niece was born. I had one grandmother I never saw and one who, when she died, I cried for three days. The word isn’t what matters. It’s the specific relationship. You love that kid more than anything on this planet.”
― Atmosphere
― Atmosphere
“But it became comforting to think of fear as a vessel of freedom. I had scared myself right into the kind of life I wanted.”
― Nowhere for Very Long: The Unexpected Road to an Unconventional Life
― Nowhere for Very Long: The Unexpected Road to an Unconventional Life
“But even the most beautiful stories can have tragic endings. They can also have beautiful endings. Though I suspect any story worth telling has a little bit of both.”
― Nowhere for Very Long: The Unexpected Road to an Unconventional Life
― Nowhere for Very Long: The Unexpected Road to an Unconventional Life
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