I’m not really one for memoirs, but The Yellow Envelope by Kim Dinan is an exception. “One Gift, three rules and a life changing journey around the world”. Kim’s travels definitely turned her into a wonderful storyteller. I’m about 70% done with this journey and will have my review up somewhere during the next week or so. For now, let me just share a few note-worthy quotes:   I was learning to enjoy the great swath of possibility that came with uncertainty. Had the cards been different, it could have been me to grow up on an isolated island protected from the rest of the world by miles and miles of water.Who would I have become it that had been my fate? And who was I now because it wasn’t? Floating Islands Lake Titicaca, Peru Maybe Diego never questioned the purpose of his life because he was too busy going about living it I enjoyed Kim’s account on the Rickshaw Challenge in India and I had soooo much sympathy with those girls! Yup, I would have cried the whole time. The teams ahead of us were cruising along without problems, but they were missing out on something incredible: the extraordinary kindness that […]

Welcome back to Thursday Quotables hosted by Bookshelf Fantasies. This weekly feature is the place to highlight a great quote, line, or passage during your past reading week. Whether it’s something funny, startling, gut-wrenching or just really written beautifully – this is where you must share! Just remember to link back to bookshelffantasies.com I don’t do a Thursday Quotable every week, heck – I haven’t done one in months! I haven’t really read anything notable or quotable in months. And then I came across this book….. The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman and I simply can’t stop quoting and unquoting. Funny how the right book can cross your path at just the right time. There are so many beautiful quotes and passages in this book that just speak to my heart so dearly at the moment.“Like the wheat fields where more grain is sown than can ripen, God seemed to sprinkle extra children about, and harvest them according to some indecipherable calendar.”“It is a luxury to do something that serves no practical purpose: the luxury of civilization.”“Your family is never in your past. You carry it around with you everywhere.” “We can’t rightly ever talk about the future, if you think about it. We can only talk about what […]