Quotes from Alice Steinbach

I suppose that, after the passion of love, water rights have caused more trouble than anything else to the human species.

The writer ended with a line from Eudora Welty: "All serious daring starts from within.

And like any group thrown together in a strange situation, we developed the sort of we're-in-this-together, for-better-or-for-worse camaraderie that I found appealingly familiar. It was something I missed, the sense of sharing those small, daily experiences that, as far as I can tell, are really what life boils down to.

I guess I'm too selfish to travel well with other people, I told Anne later.

Being a student meant always looking up to someone wiser and always measuring yourself against that wisdom and knowledge.

How to stop rushing from place to place, always looking ahead to the next thing while the moment in front of me slipped away unnoticed.

Most of us, I suppose, have had at one time or another the impulse to leave behind our daily routines and responsibilities and seek out, temporarily, a new life.

By then I'd knocked around enough to know that, in the end, what adds up to a life is nothing more than the accumulation of small daily moments.

Things happen, I thought, and we respond. That's what it all comes down to. To believe anything else, as far as I could tell, was simply an illusion.