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21 " Valor consists in the power of self-recovery. "
― Peter Rock , My Abandonment
22 " None of the buildings in the town of Sisters are really more than one story tall. "
23 " This will be so much better,” Miss Jean Bauer says with her hand on my shoulder. “Caroline will be able to start school in a month and a half and get back to having a regular education like any child here in Oregon.” “Yes, "
24 " Si una avanza confiada en dirección a sus sueños, encontrará un éxito inesperado en horas ordinarias. Atravesará un límite invisible. No olviden esto. No olviden que el pensamiento puede interponerse. Olviden olvidar. Buscamos olvidarnos de nosotros mismos, sorprendernos y hacer cosas sin saber cómo ni por qué. El camino de la vida es maravilloso. Se hace de abandono. "
25 " Todos mis problemas surgen de creer cosas que sé que no son ciertas. "
26 " They want you to like it," Father says. "This way they can know where you are at all times. "
27 " You have to look like you're going somewhere and if you can you don't ever want to look like you're carrying everything you own. You want to travel light like you have a home and that's where you keep your things. "
28 " It’s a girls own fault if she is bored. "
29 " Nature ever flows, never stands still. "
30 " To be great is to keep sweetness. "
31 " It’s hard to stay the same while everything keeps changing around you. "
32 " One Sometimes you’re walking through the woods when a stick leaps into the air and strikes you across the back and shoulders several times, then flies away lost in the underbrush. "
33 " he has bills of money folded thick in his hand. He gives me some. “Go in and buy a ticket to Bend,” he says. “One way.” “Where?” I say. “I’ve never heard of that place.” “Bend, "
34 " The pale green of the St. Johns Bridge, stretching across the river to the Safeway and the library and everything on that side. "
35 " It’s about the girl,” she said. “She lived for four years in the forest, never in a house. Growing things, hiding, reading books. We’ll go see her; she’ll tell us things. "
― Peter Rock , Klickitat