I was sad when it ended cuz I didn't want it to! And Stefanie and James definitely overcome book really made me want to book a flight to a foreign country and go with the flow of the vacation and meet new people and live new experiences. It lies in the ability to overcome those setbacks. Their lack of funds, haste to get married, and the health scares, job setbacks, and strained first year of marriage become the textbook reasons why not to take such risks, but the success of a risk isn't measured in the amount of setbacks. It was beautiful, informative, true story to an adult reader, it made me nervous to see the couple make sometimes radical choices in their journey. Many of us truly missed the adventure, and this story could fill the void that Covid-19 left in our was a lot of faith and hope involved and it made me feel energized reading the ending. I can attest to is the time where the Pandemic is ending which means that people are traveling more. For better and worse, they pack their lives with experiences that are inspiring contemporary readers.ĭozens of rave reviews from Top Reviewers on Goodreads and memoirs converge into one story as we follow Stef and James try to live life fully despite challenges, follow their dreams and fall in love with not only life but each other… If you enjoyed Wild by Cheryl Strayed you're gonna love The Back Pack Years so much more. They take chances some would consider reckless in search of joy and satisfaction. They quit jobs to prioritize their mental health. ― Malik Faisal Memory is a way of holding on to the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose.In memoirs that run parallel, Stef and James travel and work in thirteen countries over six years. the tears dry, the smiles fade, but the memories last forever. ~ Lori Robinson Life brings tears, smiles, and memories. Thins end but memories last forever ~Kumar Milan A moment lasts all of a second, but the memory lives on forever. Palacio, Wonder (829 likes Goodreads) 10 Memory Quotes by QuotenSmile The best thing about memories is making them ~ Family by mary corbett. Only instead of being made of stone, they’re made out of the memories people have of you.” They’re like the pyramids that the Egyptians built to honor the pharaohs. The things we do are like monuments that people build to honor heroes after they’ve died. Montgomery, The Story Girl (913 likes Goodreads) “Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.” ― Allyson Braithwaite Condie, First Day (968 likes Goodreads) It’s not always a bad idea to stay behind the window and look out at life instead, is it?” “Isn’t it funny how the memories you cherish before a breakup can become your worst enemies afterwards? The thoughts you loved to think about, the memories you wanted to hold up to the light and view from every angle–it suddenly seems a lot safer to lock them in a box, far from the light of day and throw away the key. ― Alfred Lord Tennyson (1033 likes Goodreads) Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes,Īnd thinking of the days that are no more.”

Tears from the depths of some devine despair “Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean, ― Cassandra Clare, City of Heavenly Fire (1057 likes Goodreads) “There are memories that time does not erase… Forever does not make loss forgettable, only bearable.” ― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera (1384 likes Goodreads) “He was still too young to know that the heart’s memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past.” ― John Banville, The Sea (2302 likes Goodreads) “The past beats inside me like a second heart.”

“No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.”

― Lois Lowry, The Giver (5206 likes Goodreads) “The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain.

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