“Change, like healing, takes time.”
― Allegiant
― Allegiant
“Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.”
― Why I Write
― Why I Write
“I’ve heard that the demilitarized zone between North and South Korea has some of the best bird-watching in the region, with a rare crane species that survives in the buffer of wilderness provided by a history of war. Wouldn’t that be nice, if rare birds were living in every country’s outline?”
― Six Walks: In the Footsteps of Henry David Thoreau
― Six Walks: In the Footsteps of Henry David Thoreau
“about
our argument tonight
whatever it was
about
and
no matter
how unhappy
it made us
feel
remember that
there is a
cat
somewhere
adjusting to the
space of itself
with a delightful
wonderment of
easiness.
in other words
magic persists
without us
no matter what
we do
against it.”
― On Cats
our argument tonight
whatever it was
about
and
no matter
how unhappy
it made us
feel
remember that
there is a
cat
somewhere
adjusting to the
space of itself
with a delightful
wonderment of
easiness.
in other words
magic persists
without us
no matter what
we do
against it.”
― On Cats
“Tis a fearful thing To love What death can touch. To love, to hope, to dream, And oh, to lose. A thing for fools, this, Love, But a holy thing To love what death can touch. This”
― The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief
― The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief
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