“Just the act of falling in love was to agree to a broken heart.”
― 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
“I believe the truth of how we become who we are is layered. Not like onions, but like earth. Traceable at the surface, but tumultuous beneath. Tectonic plates of our pasts shifting violently, or more often subtly, causing great rumbling disruptions in the identities we think we’ve mapped so well.”
― 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
“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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