“Hope looks like a footprint, a half footprint where someone grew careless and stepped into soft mud that later hardened too thick to blow away in the evening and morning winds.”
“You never conquer a mountain. You stand on the summit a few brief minutes and then the wind blows away your footprints”
“We walked on the moon. We made footprints somewhere no one else had ever made footprints, and unless someone comes and rubs them out, those footprints will be there forever because there’s no wind.”
“He looks tired, like someone walked on his skin and left footprints.”
“Mammy's heart was like a pallid beach where Laila's footprints would forever wash away beneath the waves of sorrow that swelled and crashed”
“Pointed in the wrong direction, trapped outside their own history and unable to retrace their steps because their footprints had been swept away.”