Balbec Quote by Marcel Proust

“It was such a relief to be able to sob and have someone know all the reasons why.”

— Rachel Hawkins

“It seemed sometimes that life was nothing more than the accumulation of emotional baggage-memories,regrets and lost opportunities.”

— Dennis E. Taylor

“With a simple shift in perspective, I had changed the outcome of the summer, and myself. I was stronger, more enduring, flexible, and independent.…

— Deena Kastor

“I will thank you to stay out of my affairs. Or need I remind you that it is not Stanhope whom I'e had to…

— Sarah MacLean

“Sometimes you needed to be an outsider to really appreciate how things worked. Otherwise you took it for granted.”

— Nathan Lowell

“You didn’t like to travel. You rarely went abroad. You would spend your time in your bedroom. It seemed useless to you to travel…

— Edouard Levé

“It was good for a while, being empty. I didn't hurt anymore. But as time went on, it was like I could hear myself…

— Myra McEntire

“It wouldn't give me more time here, but if I was part of something like that, maybe my life wouldn't be so small. Maybe…

— Traci Chee

“Perhaps it was time to stop choosing small places.”

— Erin Bow

“I was trying my best to straighten out my life, but I always ended up in the middle of some festive waste of time.”

— Heather O'Neill

“How do you leave a place better than when you came?”

— Karen Budzinski

“I had enough to wrestle, wrangle and settle back into, with this one life of mine. Besides, I knew beyond a shadow of a…

— Anne Lamott