“No matter how bad you want a person, if your hearts are in two different places, you’ll have to pass and move on.”
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“It never occurred to me that our lives, until then so closely interwoven, could unravel and separate over a thing like that. But the fact was, I suppose, there were powerful tides tugging us apart by then, and it only needed something like that to finish the task. If we'd understood that back then-who knows?-maybe we'd have kept a tighter hold of one another.”
― Never Let Me Go
― Never Let Me Go
“We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place, we stay there, even though we go away. And there are things in us that we can find again only by going back there.”
― Night Train to Lisbon
― Night Train to Lisbon
“I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more."
(Letter to John Banister, Jr., June 19, 1787)”
― The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Vol 11, January 1787 to August 1787
(Letter to John Banister, Jr., June 19, 1787)”
― The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Vol 11, January 1787 to August 1787
“To move, to breathe, to fly, to float,
To gain all while you give,
To roam the roads of lands remote,
To travel is to live.”
― The Fairy Tale of My Life: An Autobiography
To gain all while you give,
To roam the roads of lands remote,
To travel is to live.”
― The Fairy Tale of My Life: An Autobiography
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