Abel

“There is no greater plague to an introvert than the extrovert.”
― Pierce Brown, Golden Son

“Why be seduced by something as small as a front door in another country? Why fall in love with a place because it has trams and its people seldom have curtains in their homes? However absurd the intense reactions provoked by such small (and mute) foreign elements may seem, the pattern is at least familiar from our personal lives. There, too, we may find ourselves anchoring emotions of love on the way a person butters his or her bread, or recoiling at his or her taste in shoes. To condemn ourselves for these minute concerns is to ignore how rich in meaning details may be.”
― Alain de Botton, The Art of Travel

“Friendships take minutes to make, moments to break, years to repair.”
― Pierce Brown, Golden Son

“It seemed an advantage to be travelling alone. Our responses to the world are crucially moulded by whom we are with, we temper our curiosity to fit in with the expectations of others.”
― Alain de Botton, The Art of Travel