A traveler enters the world into which he travels, but a tourist brings his own world with him and never sees the one he's in.

- Thomas H. Cook

The last best hope of life is that at some point during living it, all that you did wrong will suddenly teach you to do right.

- Thomas H. Cook

Babes crying in the wilderness know that the world already has plenty of terrifying noise, but there aren't enough clear voices to smooth our trouble…

- Thomas H. Cook

At a certain point memory becomes a beach strewn with landmines, all life’s many losses buried in those sands.

- Thomas H. Cook