“because I’m 2,000 miles away with only my heartbeat keeping me company, and I’m the happiest I’ve ever been.”— Marisa Donnelly, tcat.tc
“I hope wherever she takes you that you will learn to call the place home. And that you will let the sky fill you with rain when you are emptied like a bucket overflowing, spilling off the edges, quenching the thirst of our broken earth Until you no longer ache for anything but your steady legs and t…”— Marisa Donnelly, tcat.tc
“Perhaps I was never meant to wander on tired feet. Perhaps they ache after long days because the soles bear the weight of a world where they will never belong.”— Marisa Donnelly, tcat.tc
“Whenever I was dizzy and drunk on freedom and loneliness I would look up to right myself again. And the sky, those roads, these stars would guide my tired heart home.”— Marisa Donnelly, tcat.tc
“Afraid of dying, yes, but even more of not having lived, afraid of passing my days in a stupor, afraid of squandering my moment in the light.”— Scott Russell Sanders, amazon.com
“I also have another quality, and that is an unshakable hunger to know who I am, where I am, and into what sort of cosmos I have been so briefly and astonishingly sprung.”— Scott Russell Sanders, amazon.com
“It would have been hard put to explain who I was or why I had come back. Maybe I also wanted to keep the past pure, unmixed with the present.”— Scott Russell Sanders, amazon.com
“So, here you are too foreign for home too foreign for here. Never enough for both.”— Ijeoma Umebinyuo, amazon.com
“He was terribly aware of the forces that brought people together and split them apart, and he wondered what his daughter was doing, far across the city; if she was still telling the story of a girl caught between the tidal pull of the moon and of the world. Or if she had already moved on.”— E. K. Ota, narrativemagazine.com
“She tried to find the place in her heart where her life was anchored, but she couldn’t, so she closed her eyes and pressed the palms of her hands against the earth, making sure it was there.”— Pam Munoz Ryan, amazon.com