“But this is what I know about people getting ready to walk of the edge of their own lives: they want someone to know how they got there. Maybe they want to know that when they dissolve into earth and water, that last fragment will be saved, held in some corner of someone's mind; or maybe all they want is a chance to dump it pulsing and bloody into someone else's hands, so it won't weigh them down on the journey. They want to leave their stories behind. No one in all the world knows that better than I do.” PeopleKnowsWorldWantMindStoriesHandsEarthLastsWaterChanceWalksBehindsKnow HowJourneyReadyEdgesCornersSavedBloodyFragmentsDump Author:Tana French
“Walk with me to the edge of the city, / Take off your shoes and feel the earth. / Remember who you are. You are a star. / A mountain, that fountain in the sun. / Your heart is the velvet cave / Where birds sing.” FeelsHeartEarthRememberStarsWalksCitiesSunJourneyMountainBirdWho You AreShoesEdgesCavesFountainVelvetWalk With MeRemember Who You Are Author:Julia Cameron
“Venice is ever the fragile labyrinth at the edge of the sea and it reminds us how brief and perilous the journeys of our lives are; perhaps that is why we love it so. City of plagues and brief liaisons, city of lingering deaths and incendiary loves, city of chimeras, nightmares, pigeons, bells. You are the only city in the world whose dialect has a word for the shimmer of canal water reflected on the ceiling of a room.” WorldWaterRoomsCitiesOur LivesJourneySeaEdgesNightmareFragileBellsPlagueCeilingsVeniceLabyrinthPigeonsLingeringDialectCanalsCities In The WorldShimmerChimeraLiaison Author:Erica Jong
“It is clearly not the journey for everyone. People succeed in as many ways as there are people. Some can be completely fulfilled with destinations that are much closer to home and more comfortable. But if you long to keep going, then I hope you are able to follow my lead to the places I have gone. To within a whisper of your own personal perfection. To places that are sweeter because you worked so hard to arrive there. To places at the very edge of your dreams.” PeopleIfsWayInspirationalLongHardHomeDreamInspirationMotivationalAbleMotivationGoneJourneySucceedComfortablePerfectionEdgesYour DreamsDestinationKeep GoingFulfilled Author:Michael Johnson
“I don't know if you hear this often but I would say The Razor's Edge (loosely based on a great W. Somerset Maugham novel). This was Bill Murray's first dramatic role so everyone thought he stunk in this deep character but I thought he and the movie were great. The movie takes place over decades so you see Murray's character go from goofy playboy all the way to wiser, older person. It's basically a movie version of the journey I described.” IfsKnowsWayFirstsPersonsCharacterRolesNovelJourneyBillsEdgesDecadesVersionsDramaticWiserRazorsPlayboyGoofy Author:Lewis Schiff
“After the journey around the world, writing Hope's Edge, I began to see that it is not possible to know what's possible - and therein lies our freedom.” KnowsWorldWritingLyingJourneyEdgesAround The World Author:Frances Moore Lappé
“My Friend: Art thou abroad on this stormy night on thy journey of love, my friend? The sky groans like one in despair. I have no sleep tonight. Ever and again I open my door and look out on the darkness, my friend! I can see nothing before me. I wonder where lies thy path! By what dim shore of the ink-black river, by what far edge of the frowning forest, through what mazy depth of gloom art thou threading thy course to come to me, my friend?” LooksArtI CanLyingNightCoursesBlackSleepWonderDarknessPathDoorsJourneySkyDespairMy FriendsRiversDepthEdgesForestsTonightShoreInkGloomStormyFrowningNo SleepStormy NightsLove Journey Book:Gitanjali Source: Gitanjali
“Dear Angel Juan, You used to guard my sleep like a panther biting back my pain with the edge of your teeth. You carried me into the dark dream jungle, loping past the hungry vines, crossing the shiny fish-scale river. We left my tears behind in a chiming silver pool. We left my sorrow in the muddy hollows. When I woke up you were next to me, damp and matted, your eyes hazy, trying to remember the way I clung to you, how far down we went. Was the journey too far, Angel Juan? Did we go too far?” WayTryingDreamEyePainPastRememberUsedNextLeftDarkSleepBehindsJourneyTearsSorrowAngelRiversDearEdgesFishesScalesHungryTeethSilverPoolJungleCrossingsVinesMuddyBitingDampJuanPanthersHazyDark Dreams Book:Beautiful Boys: Missing Angel Juan and Baby Be-Bop Source: Beautiful Boys: Missing Angel Juan and Baby Be-Bop
“A bran' new book is a beautiful thing, all promise and fresh pages, the neatly squared spine, the brisk sense of a journey beginning. But a well-worn book also has its pleasures, the soft caress and give of the paper's edges, the comfort, like an old shawl, of an oft-read story.” GivingWellsBookStoriesBeautifulPleasureJourneyComfortPromisePaperPagesEdgesWornBeautiful ThingsSpineCaressNew Books Book:The Haunting of Charles Dickens Source: The Haunting of Charles Dickens