“I have learned that if you must leave a place that you have lived in and loved and where all your yesteryears are buried deep, leave it any way except a slow way, leave it the fastest way you can. Never turn back and never believe that an hour you remember is a better hour because it is dead. Passed years seem safe ones, vanquished ones, while the future lives in a cloud, formidable from a distance.”
-Beryl Markham
“It was a mistake to think of houses, old houses, as being empty. They were filled with memories, with the faded echoes of voices. Drops of tears, drops of blood, the ring of laughter, the edge of tempers that had ebbed and flowed between the walls, into the walls, over the years.
“Wasn’t it, after all, a kind of life?
“And there were houses, he knew it, that breathed. They carried in their wood and stone, their brick and mortar a kind of ego that was nearly, very nearly, human.”
-Nora Roberts
“There are no unsacred places; there are only sacred places and desecrated places.”
-Wendell Berry
“A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.” -Robert Benchley
“Be careful about reading health books. Some fine day you’ll die of a misprint.”
-Markus Herz
“The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.” -Rainer Maria Rilke
“We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.”
-Friedrich Nietzsche
