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“Memories are fragile things to hold, but many times, it's what we have.”
― The Magic of Ordinary Days
― The Magic of Ordinary Days
“He touched me as if I were the curved and delicate handle of a china cup, but he held me tightly just as I was, flesh and blood and full of human flaws and fears. In his arms I wasn't a girl dreaming of sailing the high seas, and I wasn't a farm kid jumping the train, either, but a fully grown woman riding the soft side of a crescent moon.”
― The Magic of Ordinary Days
― The Magic of Ordinary Days
“Livy: Don’t you ever wonder what else is out there…beyond the farm?
Ray: Sometimes
Livy: Aren’t you curious how other people lived?
Ray: I enjoyed the drive, but i like coming back to my place. Sleeping on my land.
Livy: Your land. Ha! Seems every war in human history is about owning a land. I liked the Indian view that we’re just temporary guardians of the land where we lived.
Ray: It’s not temporary to me.
Livy: But your family just owned this land for less than a hundred years. In a span of a history that’s nothing.
Ray: In a span of a life…that’s near everything.”
― The Magic of Ordinary Days
Ray: Sometimes
Livy: Aren’t you curious how other people lived?
Ray: I enjoyed the drive, but i like coming back to my place. Sleeping on my land.
Livy: Your land. Ha! Seems every war in human history is about owning a land. I liked the Indian view that we’re just temporary guardians of the land where we lived.
Ray: It’s not temporary to me.
Livy: But your family just owned this land for less than a hundred years. In a span of a history that’s nothing.
Ray: In a span of a life…that’s near everything.”
― The Magic of Ordinary Days
“Sometimes you do find what you're looking for closer than you think”
― The Magic of Ordinary Days
― The Magic of Ordinary Days
“We’d save up a penny or two, bring them down here, and set them on the tracks. When a train comes, it flattens out that penny, leaving it thin as paper and shaped long, like an egg. But it happens so fast, you can’t see where the train sends that penny flying… We’d look all around, in the sage brush and the prickly pear cactus, until we found them.. And you know what?”
He stopped walking and turned to gaze at me now. “We always found them closer than we thought.”
“After we’d looked all over Creation, we’d find them somewhere near the tracks, after all.”
He said, “Sometimes you do find what you’re looking for closer than you think.”
― The Magic of Ordinary Days
He stopped walking and turned to gaze at me now. “We always found them closer than we thought.”
“After we’d looked all over Creation, we’d find them somewhere near the tracks, after all.”
He said, “Sometimes you do find what you’re looking for closer than you think.”
― The Magic of Ordinary Days
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