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  • #1
    Atticus Poetry
    “Never go in search of love, go in search of life, and life will find you the love you seek.”
    Atticus

  • #2
    Adam Silvera
    “...stories can make someone immortal as long as someone else is willing to listen.”
    Adam Silvera, They Both Die at the End

  • #3
    Adam Silvera
    “Maybe it's better to have gotten it right and been happy for one day instead of living a lifetime of wrongs.”
    Adam Silvera, They Both Die at the End

  • #4
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.”
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

  • #5
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

  • #6
    Alex Garland
    “When you develop an infatuation for someone you always find a reason to believe that this is exactly the person for you. It doesn’t need to be a good reason. Taking photographs of the night sky, for example. Now, in the long run, that’s just the kind of dumb, irritating habit that would cause you to split up. But in the haze of infatuation, it’s just what you’ve been searching for all these years.”
    Alex Garland, The Beach

  • #7
    Alex Garland
    “If I'd learnt one thing from travelling, it was that the way to get things done was to go ahead and do them. Don't talk about going to Borneo. Book a ticket, get a visa, pack a bag, and it just happens.”
    Alex Garland, The Beach

  • #8
    Alex Garland
    “Tourists went on holidays while travellers did something else. They travelled.”
    Alex Garland, The Beach

  • #9
    Jack Kerouac
    “[...]the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes “Awww!”
    Jack Kerouac, On the Road

  • #10
    Jack Kerouac
    “Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.”
    Jack Kerouac, On the Road

  • #11
    Jack Kerouac
    “What is that feeling when you're driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? - it's the too-huge world vaulting us, and it's good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.”
    Jack Kerouac, On the Road

  • #12
    Jack Kerouac
    “The best teacher is experience and not through someone's distorted point of view”
    Jack Kerouac, On the Road

  • #13
    Jack Kerouac
    “I was surprised, as always, by how easy the act of leaving was, and how good it felt. The world was suddenly rich with possibility.”
    Jack Kerouac, On the Road

  • #14
    David  Mitchell
    “Travel far enough, you meet yourself.”
    David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

  • #15
    David  Mitchell
    “Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.”
    David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

  • #16
    David  Mitchell
    “A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.”
    David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

  • #17
    David  Mitchell
    “I believe there is another world waiting for us. A better world. And I'll be waiting for you there.”
    David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

  • #18
    Charlotte Brontë
    “I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
    Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre



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