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“A motorcycle is a vehicle of change, after all. It puts the wheels beneath a midlife crisis, or a coming-of-age saga, or even just the discovery of something new, something you didn't realize was there. It provides the means to cross over, to transition, or to revitalize; motorcycles are self-discovery's favorite vehicle.”

Change Self Discovery Something New Coming Of Age Transition Midlife Crisis Motorcycles Revitalization Why We Ride

Book:Motorcycles I've Loved: A Memoir

Source: Motorcycles I've Loved: A Memoir

“The lights whisper to her, loud and urgent, but the only voice she wants right now is her father's. It's a sound she'll never stop wanting.”

Loss Grief Family Mourning

Book:The Light Pirate

Source: The Light Pirate

“After all this time, the aches have grown softer but also deeper. They both know the looping shape of pain--it changes and quiets but never ends. There is a strange comfort in its constancy. Memories of what was lost are also reminders of what was held.”

Book:The Light Pirate

Source: The Light Pirate

“He had never been satisfied and never would be. It wasn't success he craved, or even fame, it was history: he wanted to crack the universe open like a ripe watermelon, to arrange the mess of pulpy seeds before his dumbfounded colleagues. He wanted to take the dripping red fruit in his hands and quantify the guts of infinity to look back into the dawn of time and glimpse the very beginning. He wanted to be remembered.”

Universe Astronomy

Book:Good Morning, Midnight

Source: Good Morning, Midnight

“Riding that ridge between reason and recklessness, stillness and speed, is the first, maybe the most important, thing I learned about motorcycles.”

Reason Learning Speed Stillness Riding Recklessness Motorcycles

Book:Motorcycles I've Loved: A Memoir

Source: Motorcycles I've Loved: A Memoir

“There is a delicate ridge one must ride between fear and reason on a motorcycle—lean too far in either direction and there will be consequences.”

Reason Fear Riding Consequences Motorcycle

Book:Motorcycles I've Loved: A Memoir

Source: Motorcycles I've Loved: A Memoir

“The dream clung to her. Her sleep had been full of Jupiter ever since the survey last week: that overwhelming, unstoppable girth; the swirling patterns of the atmosphere, dark belts and light stripes rolling in circular rivers of ammonia crystal clouds; every shade of orange in the spectrum, from soft, sand-coloured regions to vivid streams of molten vermilion; the breathtaking speed of a ten-hour orbit, whipping around and around the planet like a spinning top; the opaque surface, simmering and roaring in century-old tempests. And the moons! The ancient, pockmarked skin of Callisto and the icy crust of Ganymede. The rusty cracks of Europa’s subterranean oceans. The volcanoes of Io, magma fireworks leaping up from the surface.”

Book:Good Morning, Midnight

Source: Good Morning, Midnight

“Psychologically necessary equipment. The human mind had never been tested quite like this. Could they have been better prepared? Trained more extensively? What tools would help them now? It seemed ridiculous, but perhaps these books, sheaves of paper made from trees that had once grown on their home planet, full of made-up stories, were what kept Thebes so much more grounded than the rest of them.”

Importance Of Reading

Book:Good Morning, Midnight

Source: Good Morning, Midnight