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Following are quotes that are relevant to Tasman’s story.<\/p>\n
I suggest you keep them for the days when you are reading the novel to see why I selected them and how they impact the storyline.<\/p>\n
\u201cUntil you step into the unknown, you don\u2019t know what you\u2019re made of.\u201d \u201cKeep reading. It’s one of the most marvelous adventures that anyone can have.\u201d \u201cTo venture causes anxiety, but not to venture is to lose one’s self…. And to venture in the highest is precisely to be conscious of one’s self.\u201d \u201cMay your adventures bring you closer together, even as they take you far away from home.\u201d \u201cThere are all kinds of silences and each of them means a different thing. There is the silence that comes with morning in a forest, and this is different from the silence of a sleeping city. There is silence after a rainstorm, and before a rainstorm, and these are not the same. There is the silence of emptiness, the silence of fear, the silence of doubt….\u00a0\u00a0 Whatever the mood or the circumstance, the essence of its quality may linger in the silence that follows. It is a soundless echo.\u201d \u201cAdventure is not outside man; it is within.\u201d \u201cYou look back on some little decision you made and realize all the things that happened because of it, and you think to yourself “if only I’d known,” but, of course, you couldn’t have known.\u201d \u201cOne of the inescapable encumbrances of leading an interesting life is that there have to be moments when you almost lose it.\u201d \u201cWhat is real and what is not is for your heart to decide and for your heart to know.\u201d Following are quotes that are relevant to Tasman’s story. I suggest you keep them for the days when you are reading the novel to see why I selected them and how they impact the storyline. \u201cUntil you step into the unknown, you don\u2019t know what you\u2019re made of.\u201d \u2015 Roy T. Bennett \u201cKeep reading. It’s one of the most marvelous adventures that anyone can have.\u201d \u2015 Lloyd Alexander \u201cTo venture causes anxiety, but not to venture is to lose one’s self…. And to venture in the highest is precisely to be conscious of one’s self.\u201d \u2015 S\u00f8ren Kierkegaard \u201cLove, like...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[260,7,249],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventure-novel","category-quotes","category-tasman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1818"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1880,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1818\/revisions\/1880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\u2015 Roy T. Bennett<\/a><\/p>\n
\n\u2015 Lloyd Alexander<\/a><\/p>\n
\n\u2015 S\u00f8ren Kierkegaard<\/a><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Potosi_-_SLV_H99.220-2488-300x179.jpg\")
\u201cLove, like everything else in life, should be a discovery, an adventure, and like most adventures, you don\u2019t know you\u2019re having one until you\u2019re right in the middle of it.\u201d
\n\u2015 E.A. Bucchianeri<\/a>, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly<\/a><\/p>\n
\n\u2015 Trenton Lee Stewart<\/a>, The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey<\/a><\/p>\n
\n\u2015 Beryl Markham<\/a>, West with the Night<\/a><\/p>\n
\n\u2015 George Eliot<\/a><\/p>\n
\n\u2015 Mary Downing Hahn<\/a>, The Dead Man in Indian Creek<\/a><\/p>\n
\n\u2015 Jimmy Buffett<\/a>, A Pirate Looks at Fifty<\/a><\/p>\n
\n\u2015 Colleen Houck<\/a>, Tiger’s Curse<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"