Beryl Markham Quote

I have learned that if you must leave a place that you have lived in and loved and where all your yesterdays are buried deep — leave it any way except a slow way, leave it the fastest way you can. Never turn back and never believe that an hour you remember is a better hour because it is dead.


West With the Night (1942)


I have learned that if you must leave a place that you have lived in and loved and where all your yesterdays are buried deep — leave it any way...

I have learned that if you must leave a place that you have lived in and loved and where all your yesterdays are buried deep — leave it any way...

I have learned that if you must leave a place that you have lived in and loved and where all your yesterdays are buried deep — leave it any way...

I have learned that if you must leave a place that you have lived in and loved and where all your yesterdays are buried deep — leave it any way...