“Outside, the ocean was crashing, waves hitting sand, then pulling back to sea. I thought of everything being washed away, again and again. We make such messes in this life, both accidentally and on purpose. But wiping the surface clean doesn’t really make anything neater. It just masks what is below. It’s only when you really dig down deep, go underground, that you can see who you really are.”
— Sarah Dessen, What Happened to Goodbye
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“One moment the world is as it is. The next, it is something entirely different. Something it has never been before.”
— Anne Rice, Pandora
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“My direction? Anywhere. Because one is always nearer by not keeping still.”
(Sebastian Faulks, “Engleby”)
“When you can see the colors of the feathers, you’ll also understand how you can expand your borders to infinity.”
— Lois McMaster Bujold, Borders of Infinity
“Yet it is in this loneliness that the deepest activities begin. It is here that you discover act without motion, labor that is profound repose, vision in obscurity, and, beyond all desire, a fulfillment whose limits extend to infinity.”
— Thomas Merton