"So I run a little slower than usual, warming up, reminding my poor knees and ankles that their life's work is to carry me far and fast on demand. I can feel the cold dry air in my lungs, feel my heart serenely pounding, and as I reach North Avenue I am feeling good and start to speed up. Running is many things to me: survival, calmness, euphoria, solitude. It is proof of my corporeal existance, my ability to control my movement through space if not time, and the obedience, however temporary, of my body to my will. As I run I displace air, and things come and go around me, and the path moves like a filmstrip beneath my feet....I'm flying now, that golden feeling, as if I could run right into the air, and I'm invincible, nothing can stop me, nothing can stop me, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing---."
-The Time Traveler's Wife, Audrey Niffenegger
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I love that this quote grabbed you as much as it did me :) Ohhhhh Henry, how we love you! ~E
I love the time traveler quote. it makes me wish i could run!! A/Lynne You really improved your time at boot camp.
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