Leave No Trace Quotes

“The thing no one understands, when your parent abandons you, is that it doesn't happen just once. They leave every day, every moment that you remember them is a door slamming shut in your face. And with every slam, you believe--a little more each time--that you probably deserved it.”
― Mindy Mejia, Leave No Trace

“Maybe our parents are only ever ideas in our heads, poorly enacted by the people who brought us to life. It’s unbearable, what we heap upon them, almost as unbearable as what they see in us. All we can do is hope the bonds tying us together are stronger than those constructs, outlasting our delusions and our failures, maybe even our lives.”
― Mindy Mejia, Leave No Trace

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”
― Mindy Mejia, Leave No Trace

“Modern science says: “The sun is the past, the earth is the present, the moon is the future.” From an incandescent mass we have originated, and into a frozen mass we shall turn. Merciless is the law of nature, and rapidly and irresistibly we are drawn to our doom. —Nikola Tesla”
― Mindy Mejia, Leave No Trace

“The thing no one understands, when your parent abandons you, is that it doesn’t happen just once. They leave every day, every moment that you remember them is a door slamming shut in your face. And with every slam, you believe—a little more each time—that you probably deserved it.”
― Mindy Mejia, Leave No Trace

“Belief is a powerful thing. It grabs you, unmakes you, changes the tilt and angle of everything around you into an entirely different geometry. You see the world in a new shape and no matter how horrible the belief, no matter what awful things it makes you do, a part of you is still grateful for the structure.”
― Mindy Mejia, Leave No Trace