“This journey... it's long". He says this as if he's felt all 250 years of travel.”
“It's a contention of Heat Moon's -- believing as he does any traveler who misses the journey misses about all he's going to get-- that a man becomes his attentions. His observations and curiosity, they make and remake him.”
“It's a long, arduous road he's starting to travel, but it may be that at the end of it he'll find what's he's seeking.”
“All he knew was that they fit somehow, and that he felt as if he spent most of his life traveling a path that led inexorably to her.”
“He took a duck in the face at 250 knots.”
“It is God to whom and with whom we travel, and while He is the end of our journey, He is also at every stopping place.”