Be Not Far from Me Quotes

“Living things will fight to stay that way.”
― Mindy McGinnis, Be Not Far from Me

“Be not far from me, for trouble is near and there is no one to help.”
― Mindy McGinnis, Be Not Far from Me

“I've always known my body, its strength and purpose, the long muscles of my legs and the lean bulge of my biceps. This is different; this is an intimacy with my skeleton, from the exposed broken tips in my foot to the sharp corner of my jaw digging into the ground as I try to get comfortable. I’m learning the deeper parts of me, maybe even past the ones a doctor can name. Right down into my soft bits and then further, where things you can’t actually touch live.”
― Mindy McGinnis, Be Not Far from Me

“I'm discovering me out here, for the good and the bad. There's things I'm proud of and stuff I'd rather forget, but it all makes up who I am and what I was, and what I've got to work with if I want to become something else.”
― Mindy McGinnis, Be Not Far from Me

“the Girl Who Lived, a hillbilly Harry Potter.”
― Mindy McGinnis, Be Not Far from Me

“Laney's not in front of me, and Kavita isn't behind me. I'm alone in the woods. Even in my dreams”
― Mindy McGinnis, Be Not Far from Me

“This might be one fucked up 5k - and a hell of a lot longer - but the idea is the same. You aim for the finish line.”
― Mindy McGinnis, Be Not Far from Me