Karen

“later that night
i held an atlas in my lap
ran my fingers across the whole world
and whispered
where does it hurt?

it answered
everywhere
everywhere
everywhere.”
― Warsan Shire

“As Bokonon says: 'peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from god.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle

“Jaume Cabré, Confiteor (translated into French from Catalan), p. 74: [...] un couvent situé si loin de tout qu’on disait que la pluie y arrivait fatiguée et qu’elle ne mouillait presque pas la peau. [...]
tellement isolé et difficile d’accès qu’on ne sait pas avec certitudes si les pensées y parvenaient entières" (p. 74)
...a convent situated so far from anything that it was said that the rain arrived there so weary that it could hardly moisten the skin. ... so remote and inaccessible that no one knows with certainty that ideas arrive their in their entirety.”
― Jaume Cabré, Jo confesso

“The creepers twined up and around the great tree trunks so tightly that even dead trees remained upright, supported by the same parasitical vines that had killed them.”
― Martin Dugard, Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley & Livingstone