The Scenic Route Quotes

“gatherings”
― Christina Baker Kline, The Scenic Route

“My courtesy was camouflage, enabling me to get along without giving anything away. I’d become a one-way mirror; I could see out, but nobody could see in.”
― Christina Baker Kline, The Scenic Route

“I don’t want to get to the end of my days and ask myself, ‘Did I live?”
― Christina Baker Kline, The Scenic Route

“van dwellers tend to think that other people are the weird ones—stuck in concrete boxes that go nowhere, staring out at the same view every day: a sad little fenced-in yard, the vinyl siding of the house next door.”
― Christina Baker Kline, The Scenic Route

“Stillness can’t really exist ... because even when we’re not moving, we’re breathing, and breath is movement.”
― Christina Baker Kline, The Scenic Route

“Stillness can’t really exist, she said, because even when we’re not moving, we’re breathing, and breath is movement. I’m here. I’m breathing.”
― Christina Baker Kline, The Scenic Route

“Maybe, I thought, life can really be this simple. Maybe I can just . . . exist.”
― Christina Baker Kline, The Scenic Route

“In that moment I was aware of life pulsing all around me, indifferent to me. I was just a tiny part of a vast living, breathing ecosystem. I wasn’t at the center of anything”
― Christina Baker Kline, The Scenic Route