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I didn’t know how … deep love ran, how it was in your blood, not your heart, and how that same blood pumped through your veins your whole life.
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“We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate. We travel to bring what little we can, in our ignorance and knowledge, to those parts of the globe whose riches are differently dispersed. And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again- to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more.”
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“Already, men scheme for new lands beyond our planet, surfaces and moons to mine and profit from, to colonize and populate without a single glance at the place they’ve left burning. Earth, an abandoned mother”
― Brown Girls
― Brown Girls
“I just enjoy the moment I’m in. For me, life is a whole experience, not just a series of isolated moments. It’s like submerging yourself into a warm bath rather than sticking your toe under the faucet. It’s the totality of life”
― The Answer Is…: Reflections on My Life
― The Answer Is…: Reflections on My Life
“And if travel is like love, it is, in the end, mostly because it’s a heightened state of awareness, in which we are mindful, receptive, in dimmed by familiarity and ready to be transformed. That is why the best trips, like the best love affairs, never really end.”
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“If you're happy in a dream, does that count?”
― The God of Small Things
― The God of Small Things
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