Status Updates From The Smoke Jumper

“Be still. Close your eyes. Breathe. Listen for my footfall in your heart. I am not gone but merely walk within you.” - 255

“There are choices. It’s just that sometimes the important ones aren’t ours to make.” - 219

“All he could think of was that these few precious moments were all he would ever have of her and that he must live them and feel them with every particle of his being. And then store them away and treasure them for the rest of his life.” - 221

I couldn’t tell you where this book is going if I had a map and detailed directions.

“You could worry yourself sick trying to be a better person, spend a thousand sleepless nights figuring out how to live clean and decent and honest…kneeling by your bed every night and swear to God you’d stick to it, hell you could go to church and promise properly…and then, like a hawk on a rat, some nameless catastrophe would swoop into your life and turn everything upside down and inside out forever.” 1