My Father's Keep Quotes

“When I raised my head and took my next breath, the air smelled like life. There were pieces of me the wind would keep, some of the shackles from my past broken, swept away by the breath of the Himalaya.”
― Ed Abell, My Father's Keep: A Journey of Forgiveness through the Himalaya

“Tears had been slipping through the cracks every five or six steps on the trail, and now the latch had burst—hidden cries from the man, buried cries from the son, and honest cries from the little boy all poured from my surrender.”
― Ed Abell, My Father's Keep: A Journey of Forgiveness through the Himalaya

“And wondrous things can happen in life if we make ourselves available to new experiences.”
― Ed Abell, My Father's Keep: A Journey of Forgiveness through the Himalaya

“Life experiences create the bedrock of the individual, but we only see the open-air portion of the landscape.”
― Ed Abell, My Father's Keep: A Journey of Forgiveness through the Himalaya

“SPRING HAD RETURNED to the high Himalaya, the way a bird settles down to nurture and warm the nest. Snowmelt punched and jabbed through the boulder-strewn Bhote Koshi River one thousand feet below my boots.”
― Ed Abell, My Father's Keep: A Journey of Forgiveness through the Himalaya