“I have learned that if you must leave a place that you have lived in and loved and where all your yesteryears are buried deep, leave it any way except a slow way, leave it the fastest way you can. Never turn back and never believe that an hour you remember is a better hour because it is dead. Passed years seem safe ones, vanquished ones, while the future lives in a cloud, formidable from a distance.”
― West with the Night
― West with the Night
“Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart.
...live in the question.”
― Letters to a Young Poet
...live in the question.”
― Letters to a Young Poet
“Often, it’s not about becoming a new person, but becoming the person you were meant to be, and already are, but don’t know how to be.”
― Box of Hair: A Fairy Tale
― Box of Hair: A Fairy Tale
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