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Book cover for The Sun Is a Compass: A 4,000-Mile Journey into the Alaskan Wilds
Life is tenuous. Love is risky. We have so much to lose along the way. I had forgotten the converse side of this equation, that the most precious things in life are those that don’t last forever. I needed a crash course outdoors to remind ...more
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Karen Blixen
“You know you are truly alive when you’re living among lions.”
Isak Dinesen, Out of Africa

Emma Cline
“That was part of being a girl--you were resigned to whatever feedback you'd get. If you got mad, you were crazy, and if you didn't react, you were a bitch. The only thing you could do was smile from the corner they'd backed you into. Implicate yourself in the joke even if the joke was always on you.”
Emma Cline, The Girls

“A natural saver is great until he never spends and is tight-fisted with giving. A natural spender is great until she finds herself deeply in debt and unable to give. A natural giver is great until there are no savings when a problem arises and there is no personal enjoyment of money.”
Dave Ramsey , Smart Money Smart Kids: Raising the Next Generation to Win with Money

Karen Blixen
“The cure for anything is salt water — sweat, tears, or the salt sea.”
Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen)

J. Courtney Sullivan
“This was the dream: to have a house of your own, to fill it with furniture and paint the shutters whatever color you chose. But a fine-looking house could conceal so many horrors. It seemed they spent half their lives just trying to hold it together.”
J. Courtney Sullivan, The Engagements

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