The White Notebook

“I saw that you were perfect, and so I loved you. Then I saw that you were not perfect, and I loved you even more.”-Angelita Lim

“But in truth, we are going nowhere. That, my friend, is the irony of our constant movement.”-Kate DiCamillo

“The poetry of earth is never dead.”-John Keats

“If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to it.”-Jonathan Winters

“In the dark you can feel really close to a person. You can say whatever you want.”-Jenny Han

“I need to move around a bit. To shuffle my surroundings. To wake up in cities I don’t know my way around and have conversations in languages I cannot entirely comprehend. There is always this tremendous longing in my heart to be lost, to be someplace else, to be far far away from all of this.”-Beau Taplin

“The sea is emotion incarnate. It loves, hates, and weeps. It defies all attempts to capture it with words and rejects all shackles. No matter what you say about it, there is always that which you can’t.”-Christopher Paolini

“This is how to live your life. You live it as though you were on the verge of death, because you are.”-Michael A. Singer

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”-John Green

“Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.”-Ralph Waldo Emerson

“When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not yet ready. The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back. A week is more than enough time for us to decide whether or not to accept our destiny.”-Paulo Coelho

“This grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never all dried at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal sunset, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.”-John Muir

“If we surrendered
to earth’s intelligence
we could rise up rooted, like trees.”
-Rainer Maria Rilke

“And I realized that there’s a big difference between deciding to leave and knowing where to go.”-Robyn Schneider

“Before I die, I want to be somebody’s favorite hiding place, the place they can put everything they know they need to survive, every secret, every solitude, every nervous prayer, and be absolutely certain I will keep it safe. I will keep it safe.”-Andrea Gibson