“Sixty-five percent of people,” said Calvin, “are less than twenty feet from a trail when they first begin to feel disoriented.” Tracy listened, fascinated. She imagined the pull of the woods, the cool, shadowy smell of them, the velvet of
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“The needs of the many will always be loud.” He leans forward. Hooked nose inches from mine. “But in the end, it is only the strength of the few that matters.”
― The Strength of the Few
― The Strength of the Few
“When you’re not around, even for a little while, I feel like I have to go find you. I just feel this pull to be near you. I want to know what you’re thinking, and what you’re up to, and how you feel. I want to take you places and show you things. I want to memorize you—to learn you like a song.”
― The Bodyguard
― The Bodyguard
“It feels like leaping into the frigid ocean all over again: a little bit crazy, but oddly refreshing at the same time.”
― Home Run Heart
― Home Run Heart
“Words sound the same coming from the honest and the deceiving, the informed and the deceived.”
― The Strength of the Few
― The Strength of the Few
“Grief, my mother once told me, is love’s most honest expression. The last and hardest aspect of truly, truly caring for someone. She said it at her own mother’s funeral rites, tears in her eyes even as she tried to comfort a boy too young to understand why he was so sad, why his grandmother couldn’t be there anymore. She explained through choking sobs that without grief, love would be meaningless. Because it is impossible to truly love something that cannot be lost.”
― The Strength of the Few
― The Strength of the Few
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