“Time is so strange and life is twice as strange. You must promise me not to live to be too old, William. It if is at all convenient, die before you're fifty. It my take a bit of doing. But I advise this is simply because there is no telling when another Helen Loomis might be born. It would be dreadful, wouldn't it, if you lived on to be very very old and some afternoon in 1999 walked down Main street and saw me standing there, aged twenty-one, and the whole thing out of balance again?”
― Dandelion Wine
― Dandelion Wine
“No matter how hard you try to be what you once were, you can only be what you are here and now.”
― Dandelion Wine
― Dandelion Wine
“I’ve seen how you can’t learn anything when you’re trying to look like the smartest person in the room.”
― The Poisonwood Bible
― The Poisonwood Bible
“As long as I kept moving, my grief streamed out behind me like a swimmer's long hair in water. I knew the weight was there but it didn't touch me. Only when I stopped did the slick, dark stuff of it come floating around my face, catching my arms and throat till I began to drown. So I just didn't stop.”
― The Poisonwood Bible
― The Poisonwood Bible
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