As I set out each day, I felt like a young child again. One who hadn't yet learned the rules of manmade time; the rules of clocks and calendars, of weekdays and weekends. Except the primitive markers of day and night, time lay ahead of me in a continuous, undefined mass.
Alice Steinbach
It is one of the strongest bonds, I think, that can spring up between people: sharing a passion for certain books and their authors.
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A letter is always better than a phone call. People write things in letters they would never say in person. They permit themselves to write down feelings and observations using emotional syntax far more intimate and powerful than speech will allow.
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I suspected, however, that I wasn't homesick for anything I would find at home when I returned. The longing was for what I wouldn't find: the past and all the people and places there were lost to me.
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time life-lessons travelling
And who's to say that just because something lasts only a short time, it has little value?
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I suppose that, after the passion of love, water rights have caused more trouble than anything else to the human species.
water
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