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He had the heartening bulk of the aging athlete defeated by pastry. He delivered all news as though it were good.
“If you watch a man spend fifty years of his life on his knees in the darkness digging coal, my father could have told me, then you calibrate your blessings by a different set of metrics than most people.”
― A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon
― A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon
“We’ve been friends for so long, I can’t remember which one of us is the bad influence.”
― A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon
― A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon
“love is a belief mutually held. As soon as that belief fades on either end, then poof, the whole thing falls face-flat like a tug-of-war suddenly gone one-sided.”
― Frankly in Love
― Frankly in Love
“An infinite horizon is like a strong current in the sea; it drags you to unknown places before you even notice it!”
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“This was a sky belonging to a time that no longer exists—a sky that has never been seen, or even imagined, by most people living in such places as Boston or Dallas or Los Angeles. A sky whose wildness can call forth and amplify”
― A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon
― A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon
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