“I, for one, am ready for a lot more adventure and a lot less nothing.”
― Tamara Ireland Stone, quote from Time Between Us
“I don’t stay anywhere. I visit. I observe. I leave. I don’t ever stay.”
I’m not sure what I’m supposed to do with this information. Tell him to leave? Tell him to stay? But I don’t have time to consider any other alternatives, because he scoots in closer and brings his hands to my face, and I fall back into the bookcase as he kisses me with this intensity—like he wants to be here, and if he kisses me just long enough, deeply enough, none of what he just said will actually be true.”
― Tamara Ireland Stone, quote from Time Between Us
“Time is the longest distance between two places.”
― Tamara Ireland Stone, quote from Time Between Us
“I stood there and stared at it—this colorful expanse of paper, with its topographic mountain ranges and changeable shades of blue to depict the various depths of the ocean—and saw a map of the world, but knew it wasn’t mine. My world was much, much smaller”
― Tamara Ireland Stone, quote from Time Between Us
“I'm completely in love with you. What if I didn't leave, after all?”
― Tamara Ireland Stone, quote from Time Between Us
“Poner a prueba el destino y jugar con el no siempre tiene consecuencias evidentes e inmediatas, al final algo acaba saliendo mal.”
― Tamara Ireland Stone, quote from Time Between Us
“Cualquiera que desee viajar puede encontrar el modo de hacerlo. Solo tiene que desplegar su creatividad.”
― Tamara Ireland Stone, quote from Time Between Us
“Al final estaré tan solo como al principio.”
― Tamara Ireland Stone, quote from Time Between Us
“And I know I need to invite him over for dinner, because there's no question. This is serious.”
― Tamara Ireland Stone, quote from Time Between Us
“Da igual si estaba escrito o no; no me corresponde a mí cambiarlo solo porque puedo.”
― Tamara Ireland Stone, quote from Time Between Us
“And I just keep going and going, picking up pins and stabbing them into the paper until the map is covered with places I’ll never see and the clear plastic box is as empty as I am.”
― Tamara Ireland Stone, quote from Time Between Us
“When I look around at this ‘normal’ life you’re so eager to leave, I don’t see boring or predictable—I see friends who love you and a family that would make any sacrifice for your happiness. I see the kind of security I’ve never had and always wanted. I may have given you access to the world I know best, but you and your family have given me a world that doesn’t exist on a map.”
― Tamara Ireland Stone, quote from Time Between Us
“Puoi portarmi ovunque. Oppure da nessuna parte. Ma in qualunque posto sarai su questa terra, è lì che vorrei essere anche io.”
― Tamara Ireland Stone, quote from Time Between Us
“You have been in Afghanistan I perceive.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, quote from The Complete Sherlock Holmes
“Don't you see? It's Galaxy-wide. It's a worship of the past. It's a deterioration - a stagnation!”
― Isaac Asimov, quote from Foundation
“We shall be everything to each other. Nothing else shall be of any consequence.”
― Kate Chopin, quote from The Awakening
“This was not judgment day - only morning. Morning: excellent and fair.”
― William Styron, quote from Sophie's Choice
“Wisest is she who knows she does not know.”
― Jostein Gaarder, quote from Sophie's World
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