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“Keep your hand on the helm.”
― Matthew Goldman, The Journals of Constant Waterman: Paddling, Poling, and Sailing for the Love of It

“Be patient with your boaters and let them rant. Most of them will get over it come December.”
― Matthew Goldman, The Journals of Constant Waterman: Paddling, Poling, and Sailing for the Love of It

“One takes what the river offers, both good and bad. The joy of living by running water far outweighs the sorrow.”
― Matthew Goldman, The Journals of Constant Waterman: Paddling, Poling, and Sailing for the Love of It

“What is time to a water rat? What is time to the river? Only we humans obsess over days and minutes, hours and seasons.”
― Matthew Goldman, The Journals of Constant Waterman: Paddling, Poling, and Sailing for the Love of It

“Those are the things in the water that keep the moon in orbit. I've never quite understood just how they work. You mostly can't see the moon during the day, so they can't be very efficient.”
― Matthew Goldman, The Journals of Constant Waterman: Paddling, Poling, and Sailing for the Love of It

“Living aboard one's sailboat and having neither house nor vehicle nor job, and needing none, would be hubris—the most arrogant presumption—and therefore suitable punishable by the gods. One would be drowned by Poseidon early on and die extremely happy.”
― Matthew Goldman, The Journals of Constant Waterman: Paddling, Poling, and Sailing for the Love of It

“People no longer live by sun and moon, by wind and stars, but by some slyly contrived conventions known as clocks and calendars.”
― Matthew Goldman, The Journals of Constant Waterman: Paddling, Poling, and Sailing for the Love of It

“All shall be done, but it may be harder than you think.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

“Got to start by finding it, have we? Can't start by looking for it, I suppose?”
― C.S. Lewis

“Life was too short for bad books, or even good books that you just don’t like.”
― Sarah Moriarty, North Haven

“Some choices are awful even when they're the right ones.”
― Sarah Moriarty, North Haven

“There isn’t a greater sense of loneliness than when you know you’re making a mistake and you still don’t ask for help. And then when it’s been made and everything falls apart, and you’re standing there in the ruins of your decisions, you either give up or you keep going. I have learned that I am the kind of leader that keeps going. In”
― Elizabeth Green, Confessions of a Curious Bookseller

“There isn’t a greater sense of loneliness than when you know you’re making a mistake and you still don’t ask for help.”
― Elizabeth Green, Confessions of a Curious Bookseller