Quotes About Journey

In the meantime, Charlie learnt to fly. Dorothea fell in love. Peter discovered a new star. And a great number of things happened to Justin. Hundreds of millions of ordinary, unexpected, and occasionally quite astonishing things. And that was his fate.

It's cool to meet your idols. It's a good opportunity to travel. Those kinds of things are good.

closure, that impossible thing that no one had ever experienced in life, because there always seemed to be a little aperture, a slit of light.

But now the world, he thought, had taken them. He knew that this could suddenly happen. One day you just woke up, and there was somewhere that you needed to be.

Everyone basically has one aria to sing over their entire life, and this one is hers.

Everything you do, it'll all feel really slow for a long time. But looking back, much later, it will have seemed like it was fast.

The more you were not with a person, the more your lives diverged.

He crashed quietly through the world.

When you have a child, it's like right away there's this grandiose fantasy about who he'll become. And then time goes on and a funnel appears. And the child get pushed through that funnel, and shaped by it, and narrowed a little bit.

There are some places a person can go where no one else can follow them. And sometimes you just have to trust that they know what they're doing.

Novels had accompanied her throughout her childhood, that period of protracted isolation, and they would probably do so during whatever lay ahead in adulthood.

I had a mission. To absorb everything in this world. But also to escape.

Women have to live so much of their life in the in-betweens.

never replied to forevers. Life was long, and full of surprises.

time to put on your miner's hat and headed toward the bright light.

When your mom is gone, the thing no one ever tells you is that the little compass needle inside keeps spinning around and around, never finingt North.

When your mom is gone, the thing no one ever tells you is that the little compass needle inside keeps spinning around and around, never finding North.

We are all searching for someone whose demons play well with ours

Navigating this new world made Sunny feel like Dorothy stepping out from her black-and-white house into a world of color so bright it didn't seem real. Everything in this world seems like a dream.

Sometimes love does not have the most honorable beginnings, and the endings, the endings will break you in half. It's everything in between we live for. —Ann Patchett, from the essay The Sense of an Ending

Sometimes love takes you by the hand and leads you to run through fields of flowers while butterflies weave you a dress out of rainbows. Other times, love takes you by the throat and chokes you until all you see is the bright, sharp trail of shooting stars right before everything turns to black. The problem is, you can never tell in advance which way the story ends, not until you're too far into it, and you have no choice but to keep turning the pages.

I'm still the girl who sat in the front of the class, ready to answer all the teacher's questions. I just lost most of the answers somewhere along the way. Dan didn't make

Sometimes, you turn back. Sometimes, you walk away. And sometimes, you find the place you're meant to be, and you stay there. You find a way to make it work. Whatever it takes.

Where's my syllabus to guide me through life?