Rachel MacNaught

“The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness. ”
― Michel de Montaigne

“Adventure is just bad planning.”
― Roald Amundsen

“An airplane crossed the sky, and she imagined its interior-people packed in rows like eggs in a carton, the chemical smell of the toilets, pretzels in foil pouches, cans hiss-popping open, black oval of night sky embedded in the rattling walls. How strange that something so drab, so confined, so stifling with sour exhalations and the fumes of indifferent machinery might be mistaken for a star.”
― Maggie Shipstead, Seating Arrangements

“Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.”
― Walker Evans