“bridges appear in our lives only when we are ready to cross them.”
― The Island of Missing Trees
― The Island of Missing Trees
“The human mind was the strangest place, both home and exile. How could it hold on to something as elusive and intangible as a scent when it was capable of erasing concrete chunks of the past, block by block?”
― The Island of Missing Trees
― The Island of Missing Trees
“It was the kind of love that, sooner or later, cornered you into a choice: either you tore free or you stayed and withstood its rigor even as it squeezed you into something smaller than yourself.”
― And the Mountains Echoed
― And the Mountains Echoed
“A bee would work her entire brief life just to make enough honey to fill the tip of a teaspoon.”
― 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World
― 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World
“Throughout my long life, I have observed, again and again, this psychological pendulum that drives human nature. Every few decades they sway into a zone of unbridled optimism and insist on seeing everything through a rosy filter, only to be challenged and shaken by events and catapulted back into their habitual apathy and listless indifference.”
― The Island of Missing Trees
― The Island of Missing Trees
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