“I'd come here planning to leave as soon as I could. It was a pit stop, not a destination. I had my whole life mapped out.""So what happened?""I guess that map didn't turn out to be mine after all,”
“Sometimes, things can happen in life that you didn't plan for. All you can do now is suck it up and start mapping out a new plan.”
“I spread the whole earth out as a map before me. On no one spot of its surface could I put my finger and say, here is safety.”
“Sometimes things happen in life that you didn’t plan for. All you can do is suck it up and start mapping out a new plan.”
“I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, hoever, turns out to be not a state but a process.”
“I knew my father had done the best he could, and I had no regrets about the way I'd turned out. Regrets about journey, maybe, but not the destination.”