“The English murder their meat twice: once when they shoot it, again when they cook it. 'Drôle, n'est-ce pas'?”
― A Good Year
― A Good Year
“When everything seems to be going wrong with you, you must remember the airplane takes off against the wind”
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“Truth grows gradually in us, like a musician who plays a piece again and again until suddenly he hears it for the first time”
― Fugitive Pieces
― Fugitive Pieces
“The Source of all things, the luminescence, has more forms than heaven’s stars, sure. And one good thought is all it takes to make it shine. But a single mistake can burn down a forest in your heart, hiding all the stars, in all the skies. And while a mistake’s still burning, ruined love or lost faith can make you think you’re done, and you can’t go on. But it’s not true. It’s never true. No matter what you do, no matter where you’re lost, the luminescence never leaves you. Any good thing that dies inside can rise again, if you want it hard enough. The heart doesn’t know how to quit, because it doesn’t know how to lie. You lift your eyes from the page, fall into the smile of a perfect stranger, and the searching starts all over again. It’s not what it was. It’s always different. It’s always something else. But the new forest that grows back in a scarred heart is sometimes wilder and stronger than it was before the fire. And if you stay there, in that shine within yourself, that new place for the light, forgiving everything and never giving up, sooner or later you’ll always find yourself right back there where love and beauty made the world: at the beginning. The beginning. The beginning.”
― The Mountain Shadow
― The Mountain Shadow
“The beautiful courage of us, the hope that defines our kind, is that we go on, no matter how much life wounds us. We walk. We face the sea and the wind and the salted truth of death, and we go on.”
― The Mountain Shadow
― The Mountain Shadow
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