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I admit it took perseverance for me to stick with this one. I was not a big fan for the first half of the book....but, then I was hooked and carrying my phone with me to listen at every opportunity. Pride & Prejudice remains my favorite, followed by
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I wish I could run, I wish I’d written a whole poem, I wish I kept the compass— And then I reach the plain and wish for nothing but what I have.
“Communities have their own stories, and those stories are contagious.”
― Revenge of the Tipping Point
― Revenge of the Tipping Point
“The more of this world I had discovered, the more I rejected the cage my father had built for me. There, in her frayed outline, I saw it, finally: If I were to forge my own path, to be free to make my own version of her, I had to leave this place. If I were to ever break free of this life, I had to run. But how would I ever find my way out? How would I know where to begin? Here, in the same hills that had made my father, now sprung the seed of my own rebellion.”
― How to Say Babylon: A Memoir
― How to Say Babylon: A Memoir
“While he warned us of Bablyon, she showed us Zion.”
― How to Say Babylon
― How to Say Babylon
“back when humans must have lived in almost continuous humility and awe, transfixed by the inescapable sense of just how small and unimportant they were—little more than Tadpole Shrimp or Spadefoot Toads, creatures unburdened by delusions that the world could be sculpted to suit their ambitions and needs.”
― A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon
― A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon
“The mosaic is so rich and varied that a hiker who descends from the highest point on the North Rim to the lowest point inside the canyon will pass through a spectrum of life equivalent to moving from the cool boreal forests of subarctic Canada to the sunstruck deserts of Mexico that lie just above the Tropic of Cancer—thereby compressing a distribution of plants and animals that typically stretch over more than two thousand horizontal miles into a single vertical mile.”
― A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon
― A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon
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