Dustin

“Each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can't strike them all by ourselves”
― Laura Esquivel, Like Water for Chocolate

“In every one one of us, there's a tendency to run. There's a belief that happiness is not possible here and now, so we have the tendency to run into the future in order to look for happiness.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, How to Walk

“...in my daughter’s first year, I was learning: the simple act of loving her was countercultural.”
― Heather Lanier, Raising a Rare Girl: A Memoir

“I wonder if ever again Americans can have that experience of returning to a home place so intimately known, profoundly felt, deeply loved, and absolutely submitted to? It is not quite true that you can't go home again. I have done it, coming back here. But it gets less likely. We have had too many divorces, we have consumed too much transportation, we have lived too shallowly in too many places.”
― Wallace Stegner, Angle of Repose