Madison

“The stars are always and constant friends, I thought. A hatful of constellations, learned when I was ten; those and the visible planets and a few stars, friends today as though not a night had passed since we met.”
― Richard Bach

“To be truly free one must take on the basic conditions as they are—painful, impermanent, open, imperfect—and then be grateful for impermanence and the freedom it grants us. For in a fixed universe there would be no freedom.”
― Gary Snyder, The Practice of the Wild

“Each trip it got a little more difficult to convince myself that the important things lay ahead and the things that remained behind would still be there when we returned. It was getting harder to dispel those second thoughts.”
― Linda Greenlaw, The Hungry Ocean

“The light was different, like after a rainstorm, when the air seems sharper, gold or blue. A force that usually lay beneath life was closer to the surface, temporarily. It was letting them in on something, barely. It was letting them get some spooky, lucky sense before sinking away again.”
― Grace Flahive, Palm Meridian: A Novel