Babes crying in the wilderness know that the world already has plenty of terrifying noise, but there aren't enough clear voices to smooth our troubled journey through the darkness ... only a few can speak truth to power. — Thomas H. Cook Copy Share Image
A traveler enters the world into which he travels, but a tourist brings his own world with him and never sees the one he's in. — Thomas H. Cook Copy Share Image
“She was a woman of extended silences, I noticed, and she said very little as we walked the streets of La Boca, looking at… — Thomas H. Cook Copy Share Image
“Loretta’s eyes flashed. “Is that what gets you through the night, Philip?” she asked. “Choosing to believe something, whether it’s true or not?” “In… — Thomas H. Cook Copy Share Image
“It is important to keep old things, he insisted, because it was through them alone that new things could be judged.” — Thomas H. Cook Copy Share Image
“It all comes down to people in the end. All the global policies and grand schemes. They all come down to what we do… — Thomas H. Cook Copy Share Image
“Perspective gets lost in moral certainties. Which only means that no one was ever burned at the stake by a doubter.” — Thomas H. Cook Copy Share Image
“A man with no one to revere, Julian said, is a man alone.' At that moment, he seemed to consider such loneliness the worst… — Thomas H. Cook Copy Share Image
“It’s not that we grow old, I thought, but that we grow old in decline and discomfort, and these hardships are made worse by… — Thomas H. Cook Copy Share Image
Babes crying in the wilderness know that the world already has plenty of terrifying noise, but there aren't enough clear voices to smooth our… — Thomas H. Cook Copy Share Image
At a certain point memory becomes a beach strewn with landmines, all life’s many losses buried in those sands. — Thomas H. Cook Copy Share Image
“The world has plenty of noise, Julian, but not many voices. And because there are so few, each one matters. . . That's my… — Thomas H. Cook Copy Share Image
“He looked at me intently, from what seemed behind the veil of a grave experience. Then slowly and prophetically, he said the scariest thing… — Thomas H. Cook Copy Share Image
The last best hope of life is that at some point during living it, all that you did wrong will suddenly teach you to… — Thomas H. Cook Copy Share Image
