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“The only true thing is what's in front of you right now.”
Ramona Ausubel, No One Is Here Except All of Us
“It doesn't always make sense, how you go about loving someone. Sometimes loving means gathering them back, sometimes it means sending them away.”
Ramona Ausubel, No One Is Here Except All of Us
tags: love
“You know that smell, when you put your nose up to a pine tree?" I told her I did perfectly. "No matter how long it has been, you always will. Like you are storing a part of that tree in your own body. ... Everything stays true. You are yourself, no matter how much you have to change.”
Ramona Ausubel, No One Is Here Except All of Us
“Time was a dazzling lie, a magician worth a bird in his hat. The truth, I felt certain, was that everything happened at once. How old was I? I was every age at the same time. All the days of our lives were today.”
Ramona Ausubel, No One Is Here Except All of Us
tags: age, life, time
“A person who wants to believe lives in a world full of proof.”
Ramona Ausubel, No One Is Here Except All of Us
“...Once upon a time, tomorrow was the first day of the world.”
Ramona Ausubel, No One Is Here Except All of Us
“The moment we were in was a hinge - the past swung on one side, the future on the other.”
Ramona Ausubel, No One Is Here Except All of Us
“Inside me, the dust of a new planet began to gather.
For the next forty weeks, everything made me cry, whether it was beautiful or sad, grand or meaningless. A pile of beets, a swarm of ants covering a dead bird, the falling sun turning our whole village gold--I stood there in awe, facing all of it with a pair of salt-wet eyes.”
Ramona Ausubel, No One Is Here Except All of Us
“We were along there, floating on a sea of black emptiness--all the chapters unwritten.
''The beginning of the perfect world,"I said.
"The beginning," the stranger repeated. "tThe world that is beautiful. Let there be chickens. Let there be trees. Let there be us. Let there be safe places to stay the night.”
Ramona Ausubel, No One Is Here Except All of Us
“Ich schlafe so gern. Das kann ich am besten.”
Ramona Ausubel, No One Is Here Except All of Us
tags: muße
“You are thinking of it wrong," she comforted me. "Everything stays true. You are yourself, no matter how much you have to change.”
Ramona Ausubel, No One Is Here Except All of Us
“Are we nothing but heel skin and blisters? Traveling a straight line to the end of our lives?”
Ramona Ausubel, No One Is Here Except All of Us
“Perhaps fate is an answer from God... or perhaps fate is nothing more than an accident - two ships lost in the dark, running aground on the same windward beach.”
Ramona Ausubel, No One Is Here Except All of Us
“The process of living is to surrender what, for a few glimmering days or years, you have been allowed to hold. But there is no such place as gone.”
Ramona Ausubel, No One Is Here Except All of Us