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Famous Shannon Huffman Polson Quotes

“If we are lucky, or careful, or daring, our lives are all about coming back to our senses.”

Book:North of Hope: A Daughter's Arctic Journey

Source: North of Hope: A Daughter's Arctic Journey

“Someone has said that suffering stretches the heart, so that after it heals, it can hold more love. But I felt as though my heart were stretched to the breaking point.”

Pain Suffering Grief

Book:North of Hope: A Daughter's Arctic Journey

Source: North of Hope: A Daughter's Arctic Journey

“I will have to sit with this thing that weighs on me like a stone. I will have to work to will each breath for as long as it takes, though it feel like eternity. In this waiting, there is beauty, if I am willing to hear it. In this waiting, there is witness. But it is hard. I am not in control.”

Pain Suffering Grief

Book:North of Hope: A Daughter's Arctic Journey

Source: North of Hope: A Daughter's Arctic Journey

“In this waiting, there is witness.”

Book:North of Hope: A Daughter's Arctic Journey

Source: North of Hope: A Daughter's Arctic Journey

“They were part of a web of humanity, and the web was torn, and those of us who are left all have to do the work of repair. Grief is something we claim with even a passing knowledge of someone, rocked by the finality of death in the intimacy of its implications. They are in our lives, and then they aren't.”

Book:North of Hope: A Daughter's Arctic Journey

Source: North of Hope: A Daughter's Arctic Journey

“Tracks were adumbrations of the energy of life all about us, the recent history book of wilderness.”

Wilderness Animals Tracks

Book:North of Hope: A Daughter's Arctic Journey

Source: North of Hope: A Daughter's Arctic Journey