Leon Hyacinthus

“Even in times of the most entrenched rationalism, there lives in every man a little Alexander who never managed to conquer his Eudaimon Arabia.”
― Thorkild Hansen, Arabia Felix The Danish Expedition

“Why do we feel sorry for people who can't travel? Because, unable to expand externally, they are not able to expand internally either, they can't multiply and so they are deprived of the possibility of undertaking expansive excursions in themselves and discovering who and what else they could have become.”
― Pascal Mercier, Night Train to Lisbon

“He stopped going to his own bed, waiting instead until Leander was ready for bed and then going to the room with him, the dog once more in his wake. He began to look forward to the night, to what happened between them in these hours, and to the morning when they woke.”
― Colm Tóibín, House of Names

“— Everything changes into something else, turns into some version of what it was before.”
― Claire Keegan, Foster