“We were men once, though we've become trees”

“Deep down we've never been who we think we once were, and we only remember what never happened.”

“Most men die many times in their lives. The man we become invariably slaughters the child we once were. His knowledge of the world murders the babe's innocence. from Time Untime by Sherrilyn Kenyon”

“We're not the same people we were then. We've changed, we've grown.”

“To tell you the truth, I'm amazed we've come this far," he said, and I agreed. We had hiked 500 miles, a million and a quarter steps, since setting off from Amicalola. We had grounds to be proud. We were real hikers now. We had shit in the woods and slept with bears. We had become, we would forever be, mountain men.”

“Every leaf of the tree becomes a page of the book, once the heart is opened and it has learnt to read.”