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“Only two months. The memories of fireflies and swimming naked in the waterfall did nothing but make very fine and long incisions in the membrane of contentedness I’d built up over the years—a good home, a successful career, kind neighbors, a few great relationships. A wasted life.”

Love Loss Heartbreak

Book:The History of Sound

Source: The History of Sound

“Is this why a parent’s death is so devastating? That of all the witnesses lined up in your life, losing a parent is losing the biggest one, the one who drummed you up out of nowhere and saw you, and saw you, and saw you?”

Death Parents Death Of A Loved One Death And Love Death Of A Parent

Book:Six Walks: In the Footsteps of Henry David Thoreau

Source: Six Walks: In the Footsteps of Henry David Thoreau

“In other words, walking through the dark forest, you might eventually look up through the trees, see that the sky above is the same as the sky over the sunny pasture, that it is one canopy of light spread over your whole life’s landscape. Grief and joy are in the same life, but it’s only in the forest where you notice the shafts of sunlight spilling through.”

Grief Grief And Healing Grief Inspirational

Book:Six Walks: In the Footsteps of Henry David Thoreau

Source: Six Walks: In the Footsteps of Henry David Thoreau

“That, in fact, nothing is as simple as it seems, or, more, nothing is at all as it seems, and usually older. That this ground could have been carried by the wind before settling here.”

Time Aging Nature Quotes

Book:Six Walks: In the Footsteps of Henry David Thoreau

Source: Six Walks: In the Footsteps of Henry David Thoreau