By now I was utterly deprogrammed. I walked along naked usually, clothes being not only putrid but unnecessary. My skin had been baked a deep terra-cotta brown and was the constituency of harness leather. The sun no longer penetrated it. I retained my hat.
Robyn DavidsonIt is better to proceed with one's duty in the service of others than wallow in the pain attachments bring
Robyn DavidsonI experienced that sinking feeling you get when you know you have conned yourself into doing something difficult and there's no going back.
Robyn DavidsonThe most difficult part of any endeavour is taking the first step, making the first decision.
Robyn DavidsonTo be free one needs constant and unrelenting vigilance over one's weaknesses. A vigilance which requires a moral energy most of us are incapable of manufacturing. We relax back into the moulds of habit. They are secure, they bind us and keep us contained at the expense of freedom. To break the moulds, to be heedless of the seductions of security is an impossible struggle, but one of the few that count. To be free is to learn, to test yourself constantly, to gamble.
Robyn Davidson