Icebreaker
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I’m addicted to her when she’s like this. When she forgets about this game we’re playing, when her eyes drink me in, and her hands grip the front of my shirt like she’s scared I’m going to slip away.
“The only person whose expectations you have to live up to is yourself.”
― In a Holidaze
― In a Holidaze
“It’ll be okay. Things always look worse from the inside.”
― In a Holidaze
― In a Holidaze
“I was coming out here to ask why you were acting so weird, but I see I need to keep things present tense.”
― In a Holidaze
― In a Holidaze
“I wanted to quit and to do this forever, sleep in a bed and in a tent, see what was over the next hill and never see a hill again. All of this all at once, every moment, on the trail or off.”
― A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
― A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
“Maybe we should do things because we love them, not because we’ve always done them that way.”
― In a Holidaze
― In a Holidaze
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