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"History is not the past, it is the present. We carry our history with us."
"The wild is not a place. It is a season."
"The stories we tell about animals say more about us than they do about them."
"Training a hawk is a dialogue, not a monologue."
"Grief is not a line, carrying you infinitely further from loss. It is a circle, and you come back, again and again, to the same place."
Love is not a victory march, it's a cold and it's a broken hallelujah.
The past is not a static thing. It moves and shifts with us.
You don’t get on by being original. You get on by being quiet and by stepping gently sideways.
A novel should be a book of questions, not a book of answers.
History is not the past. It is the present. We carry our history with us. We are our history.
"Love is not a victory march, it's a cold and it's a broken hallelujah."
The best stories don't come from good vs. evil but from good vs. good.
"What is a person, if not the marks they leave behind?"
"The world is changed by your example, not by your opinion."
"Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar."
"Home is not a place, it's a feeling."
"I couldn’t be in a play because plays are not real life and they are full of people doing things that don’t make sense."
You get towards the end of life—no, not life itself, but of something else: the end of any likelihood of change in that life.
How often do we tell our own life story? How often do we adjust, embellish, make sly cuts? And the longer life goes on, the fewer are those around to challenge our account, to remind us that our life is not our life, merely the story we have told about our life.