FAVORITE BOOK QUOTES
It took a long time for me to
become a reader. I started out strong in first grade but then things went
downhill and I struggled with reading all my life. Learning to reading was a huge chore for me. As
a kid, I spent all of my summers in special reading programs. And I was in the
slow reading groups in elementary school.
In high school, my parents paid just about anyone and everyone to offer
tutoring services to me. It wasn’t until
I was in college that I finally learned that I am dyslexic. And it wasn’t until
this time that I finally began to read for pleasure. Now, when I read a book, I always look for
that one line or paragraph in the story that speaks to me. Here are some of them.
“I, myself must bridge the gap. I am the bridge, although I feel more like
the gap.
Beyond the Sky and the
Earth
Jamie Zeppa
“The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion
for adventure”.
Into the Wild
Jon Krahaur
“There is no way to be famous in Bhutan, “ Karma says, “I
think that makes it easier on everyone.”
A Little More About Me
Pam Houston
“Who are these people from my past? How have they managed to slip from my
memory? And if I cannot identify them,
have I lost a part of myself? This led me to wonder, as Beckett would” who,
then am I?”
The Pleasure of Their
Company
Doris Grumback
“We all need contrast in our lives.”
Lone Traveller
Anne Mustoe
“Ignorance is the root of adventure.”
To Timbuktu
Mark Jenkins
“The thing I hate most about Francesca is the way she speaks
so slowly when she’s had a few drinks.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m used to people around here, speaking slowly,
choosing each word with careful consideration for maximum.” offensiveness.”
Knick, Knack Paddy
Whack
Ardal O’Hanlon
“People who think dying is the worst thing don’t know a
thing about life.”
The Secret Life of
Bees
Sue Monk Kidd
“We never had luxuries simply for the sake of having them.
To this day, taking a taxi instead of the subway can ruin my mother’s entire
night.”
Beyond the Narrow Gate
Leslie Chang
“Where is the place I am seeking?”
Catfish and Mandala
Andrew X. Pham
“Everything has a price.
Be prepared to pay that price.
But be aware that some prices are not worth paying.”
The Book of Celtic
Wisdom
Michael Scott
“Road Rule #20: Prejudices are like heavy furniture in a
Conestoga wagon on the Oregon Trail. In order to keep moving forward, sometimes
you have to toss them out, even if they are family heirlooms.”
Out West
Dayton Duncan
“Although he was 79, it of course seemed too soon for my
father to die and it felt as if our life together had gone so quickly.”
The Lost Daughters of
China
Karen Evans
“When a society begins o think separately one from the
other, it is the beginning of the end of civilization.”
The Camino
Shirley MacLaine
“You will have to decide for yourself what to discard, what
to replace and what to accept.”
Mutant Messages From
Forever
Marilo Morgan
“I’ve noticed that when people hit their thirties, they
start seriously acquiring things. Once they have the big things- cars, house,
spouse, children, they keep at it, acquire, acquire, acquire fancy 2nd
cars, pool tables, boats, really big things. But they’re not making their lives
fuller, just heavier.”
Second Hand
Michael Zadaarian
“And so the struggle began.
The struggle to get my old self back from her. Late in the night, I’d
lie in bed, thinking, you must gather up the broken threads and tie them
together.”
In the Time of the
Butterfly
Julie Alvarey
“There was no way to erase my past; what I should do was
improve my future.”
An Entrepreneur’s
Story
Ha Jin
“Between clinging and letting go, I feel a terrific
struggle.”
The Snow Leopard
Peter Mathieson
“He lived so badly, it seemed he always came into the moment
encumbered.”
Girl in Hyacinth Blue
Susan Vreeland
“I was like a turtle lying on its back, struggling to know
why the world was upside down.”
The Bonesetter’s
Daughter
Amy Tan
“Disillusionment was mine and a lovely friend she was.”
All Natural Herbal
Girl
Deborah Channey
“I think of my traveling self as better, more wide awake,
more relaxed and open than the dullard I am familiar with at home. My stay-at-home self, hypnotized and numbed
by America’s competing distractions often despairs of hope for the world. But
when I buckle on my backpack, lace up my walking shoes and travel to some
distant peaceful place, everything seems fresh and full of promise. Almost
nothing seems impossible.”
Take Me With You
Brad Newsham
“On the road alone, I often discover aspects of myself that
surprise me, usually triggered by someone unexpectedly met, some I’d never
paused long enough to really see had I been with a friend or group. In real
times, those encounters might last only as long as a butterfly life. Yet the
warmth of them, or the insight gained, or the irksome snag in my image of
myself, lingers for years.”
Be Kind to the
Muchachos
Ginny McCarthy
“The farther I travel from home, the more I feel as if I
could just drift off altogether, like a boat breaking loose form a mooring and
easing out with the tide.”
One For The Road
Tony Horwitz
“And this is when it hits me like a tsunami that, this time,
I’ve gone too far. I should not rip
through the desert on a giant camel, competing against veiled men with sharp
swords who’ve some this drill for thousands of years. I hate this part of me. Why
can’t I be content to learn new pesto recipes (or any recipe)? Power walk on
Sunday mornings and send out birthday presents on time, just like my sensible midwestern
sisters? The answer is more complex that a notch on ye old adventure belt. I
have a seep-seated, almost irrational worry that I will miss out on something-
an experience within my grasp that I’ve passed up out of fear.”
Cud, Sweat and Fears
Holly Morris
“There is nothing like the immensity of a desert for cutting
human beings down to size, except perhaps, the open sea.”
Lone Traveller
Anne Mustoe
“I have often thought that, no matter our age, real
adulthood begins at the death of our last parent. Until then, we are someone’s
child; afterwards, we are alone in a way that can never be corrected.”
North to the Night
Alvah Simon
“I remember that it was my father who taught me that it
didn’t matter what the neighbors thought, it was okay to sleep in a station
wagon as long as you had a dream.
Avoiding Prison and Other Noble Vacation Goals
Avoiding Prison and Other Noble Vacation Goals
Wendy Dale
“We miss you as the dry, cracked earth misses the rain.”
Mountains Beyond
Mountains
Tracy Kidder
“Christ, Buddha, Mohammad, Krishna, Yahweh, the Great White Buffalo,
must I chose between them? Who am I to define the divine-say it is this and
nothing more. On this day, alone here in the dark, can I just take to heart
their similar messages concerning peace on earth and goodwill toward all men
and women? And can I add to that list the creatures of the forest and the deep,
the flowers and the trees, the wind and the sun, the snow and the rain?”
North to the Night
Alvah Simon
“I am a bit suspicious of comfort… I believe they key to a
life well lived in discomfort. To my way of thinking, discomfort- the
discomfort of stretching yourself beyond what you already know or know how to
do, of struggling with adversity in what creates the pearls, in a well—lived
life, just as it takes an irritant like a bit of sand inside an oyster shell to
produce a real pearl.”
A Life On The Edge
Jim Whittaker
Some people ease into your life as if they have always been
there and have only been mailing a letter.”
Arieh
Reesa Grusha
“I’m not the same person I was this morning.”
To The Summit
Margo Chesholm
