“Everything I was I carry with me, everything I will be lies waiting on the road ahead.”
― Red Dust: A Path Through China
― Red Dust: A Path Through China
“Grief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you.”
― Insurgent
― Insurgent
“They say the sky is the same everywhere. Travellers, the shipwrecked, exiles, and the dying draw comfort from the thought[.]”
― Jacob's Room
― Jacob's Room
“In my contact with people, I find that, as a rule, it is only the little, narrow people who live for themselves, who never read good books, who do not travel, who never open up their souls in a way to permit them to come into contact with other souls – with the great outside world.”
― Up from Slavery
― Up from Slavery
“Whereas the tourist generally hurries back home at the end of a few weeks or months, the traveler belonging no more to one place than to the next, moves slowly over periods of years, from one part of the earth to another. Indeed, he would have found it difficult to tell, among the many places he had lived, precisely where it was he had felt most at home.”
― The Sheltering Sky
― The Sheltering Sky
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