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21 " Finally, Gunner spoke, his voice so fluid and moving, it could have come from the river itself. "I once hear a poem about angling. It say when you send out your line, it is like you cast out your troubles to let the current carry them away. I keep casting. "
― Clare Vanderpool , Navigating Early
22 " They certainly know their stuff, and any remaining mistakes or intentional variations from the factual are my own doing. In fact, why don't we just say any variations from the factual are intentional and call it good. "
23 " For crying out loud, Baker, what rock have you been living under? Oh, yeah, you're from Kansas." He said it as if Kansas were in some remote tribal region inhabited by illiterate natives like the ones in my National Geographic magazines. "
24 " When Headmaster Conrady pointed out the white clapboard chapel, I wondered whether there might be at least one structure with a softer name, like Church of the Good Shepherd or Chapel of the Non-Weapon-Bearing Angels. No such luck. Armistice Chapel was a place of peace, but only if you signed the treaty and sat at attention. "
25 " Connecting the dots. That’s what Mom said stargazing is all about. It’s the same up there as it is down here, Jackie. You have to look for the things that connect us all. Find the ways our paths cross, our lives intersect, and our hearts collide. "
26 " Fly-fishing is the sport of the thinkers and the dreamers, Gunner said. It is the contemplative man's recreation.If that was so, I thought Jesus a likely candidate for fly-fishing... "
27 " We're part of the same constellation, your father and I "
28 " You're jumping into the navigating part too soon. Maybe you should focus on the beauty of those stars up there apart from their function. Just take them in, admire them, before you expect them to lead the way. Besides, who's to say that one group of stars belongs together and only together? Those stars up there are drawn to each other in lots of different ways. They're connected in unexpected ways, just like people. "
29 " What is more important, I thought. Search or find? "
30 " a mother’s love is fierce. "
31 " Fly-fishing is the sport of the thinkers and the dreamers,” Gunnar said. “It is the contemplative man’s recreation. "
32 " [...] Sabia que, no interior de cada árvore, desenhados no tronco, havia círculos que contavam a história de um ano na vida da árvore e da floresta. Que tipo de cicatrizes e linhas alguém encontraria na vida de uma árvore?, eu me perguntava.Será que as pessoas também tinham linhas que contavam suas histórias? Como seriam as minhas? "
33 " Minha mãe era como a areia. Do tipo que esquenta na praia quando você sai da água tremendo de frio. Do tipo que gruda no corpo, deixando uma impressão na pele para fazer você se lembrar de onde esteve e de onde veio. Do tipo que você continua achando nos sapatos e nos bolsos muito tempo depois de ter ido embora da praia. "