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“The fact is, their obsessions interlock. Each has half of a secret message. What else can he do but try to fit the halves together? And if they spin out, wake from the dream with nothing, what has he sacrificed but solitary waiting?”

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I feel myself transform with every page i read in this book…

“Her trees are far more social than even Patricia suspected. There are no individuals. There aren’t even separate species. Everything in the forest is the forest. Competition is not separable from endless flavors of cooperation. Trees fight no more than do the leaves on a single tree.”

“It’s a monthly exercise in noticing a thing worth no notice at all, a creature as steadfast and reticent as life.”

I am only 23 pages in, which already felt like a lifetime while I was a part of the Hoel family’s history for 5 generations, and I can already tell that this book will be one of my favorites of all time

“Like the sun chasing away shadows, every new moment together chased off the memories of what should have been. Their hearts soared like hawks on the winds.”

“The burden of humility is light because a truly humble person diverts himself or herself of the need for recognition. The burden of arrogance, on the other hand, grows heavier day by day. In sharing the journey of live, travel with the humble person on the quiet path”

“Sometimes, immersed in his books, there would come to him the awareness of all that he did not know, of all that he would not read; and the serenity for which he labored was shattered as he realized the little time he had in life to read so much, to learn what he had to know.”

“ Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who read it and lived and dreamed with it. Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens. “

Hooked me straight away…

“ You were always seeking. You did not want to stay still-in your lives or your minds. You were always trying to change things, to make them better, to make them different. It was like the world that the Creator had made was not good enough for you. You wanted to know what was inside of stones and what was beyond the stars. You took everything apart and then tried to put it back together. You never rested”