“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
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Born place: Frankfurt, Germany
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“And so I learned what solitude really was. It was raw material - awesome, malleable,older than men or worlds or water. And it was merciless - for it let a man become precisely what he alone made of himself.”
― David James Duncan, quote from The River Why
“Why is it, I wondered, that old people are always so self-centered and excitable? But I just smiled benignly and stood back, comforted by the thought that soon they would be dead. I”
― Bill Bryson, quote from The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America
“He tilted his head, eyes peering deep inside of me in a way that made me feel exposed, like I'd never really been seen before, yet at the same time safe, like he'd never tell a soul what he'd found.”
― Kristen Simmons, quote from Article 5
“It was all there in that little disc-London, Athens, Jerusalem, Shakespeare. There everyone had lived and everything had happened; and there, presumably, his pack was still lying in the porch of an empty house near Sterk.”
― C.S. Lewis, quote from Out of the Silent Planet
“People always want to know what it feels like, so I’ll tell you: there’s a sting when you first slice, and then your heart speeds up when you see the blood, because you know you’ve done something you shouldn’t have, and yet you’ve gotten away with it. Then you sort of go into a trance, because it’s truly dazzling—that bright red line, like a highway route on a map that you want to follow to see where it leads. And—God—the sweet release, that’s the best way I can describe it, kind of like a balloon that’s tied to a little kid’s hand, which somehow breaks free and floats into the sky. You just know that balloon is thinking, Ha, I don’t belong to you after all; and at the same time, Do they have any idea how beautiful the view is from up here? And then the balloon remembers, after the fact, that it has a wicked fear of heights.
When reality kicks in, you grab some toilet paper or a paper towel (better than a washcloth, because the stains don’t ever come out 100 percent) and you press hard against the cut. You can feel your embarrassment; it’s a backbeat underneath your pulse. Whatever relief there was a minute ago congeals, like cold gravy, into a fist in the pit of your stomach. You literally make yourself sick, because you promised yourself last time would be the last time, and once again, you’ve let yourself down. So you hide the evidence of your weakness under layers of clothes long enough to cover the cuts, even if it’s summertime and no one is wearing jeans or long sleeves. You throw the bloody tissues into the toilet and watch the water go pink before you flush them into oblivion, and you wish it were really that easy.”
― Jodi Picoult, quote from Handle with Care
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