“You don’t have to go anywhere if you don’t want to. Some people want adventure. Some people want roots. Some people want an escape. Some people want a treasure hunt. We all want different things that keep us coming and going and staying and living. It’s better to just say, “You do you. You be your own manual. You be your own compass with the help of God that you want– the portion size you’ll take of Him. But I won’t preach at you with a suitcase in my hand. We all have our reasons for staying and leaving, and that’s just fine.”
— Hannah Brencher, "A Hotel is For Sale on Baltic Avenue"
“Just in case you ever foolishly forget, I’m never not thinking of you.”
— Virginia Woolf, Selected Diaries
“You were a risk, a mystery, and the most certain thing I’d ever known.”
— Beau Taplin, "A Certainty"
“And this is open season, time is up, time to be leaving. Head on down this very arbitrary road. Armor up, and say your prayers from underdogs and millionaires. I heard you better off on your own, but I ain’t gonna face this hunt alone. So I’ll be needing you, and I know you’ll be needing me too. We’re in this game together. ”
— Josef Salvat, "Open Season"
“Other people’s opinions and expectations matter. But they don’t drive everything. And making things means building up a little wall, for a short time, when you say, essentially: I will be with you later. I hear you, I love you, I will be with you later. Because I’m creating silence right now. I’m making stuff.”
— Shauna Niequist, "The Bends, The Shouting, The Real Work"
