Collette

“The pleasure we derive from journeys is perhaps dependent more on the mindset with which we travel than on the destination we travel to.”
― Alain de Botton, The Art of Travel

“I felt my soul overwhelmed with sorrow because, though I'm not in the least fond of dancing, I should have liked to dance with someone whom I adored with all my heart: I should have liked to have that someone there so that I could relieve my tension by telling him everything that I confided only to Fanchette or to my pillow (and not even to my diary) because I so wildly needed that someone, and this humiliated me, and I would never surrender myself except to the someone whom I should completely love and completely know - dreams, in short, that would never be realized!”
― Colette, Sido ;Le Pur Et L'impur ; L'étoile Vesper ; Le Fanal Bleu

“London is a riddle. Paris is an explanation.”
― G. K. Chesterson

“It's when you cry just a little, but you laugh in the middle that you've made it.”
― Jason Mraz