Elizabeth Barter

“Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life—and travel—leaves marks on you.”
― Anthony Bourdain

“I am reminded again that the greatest phrase ever written is words, words, words.”
― Wallace Thurman

“No, seventy-two. He had just turned seventy-two on March 15, yesterday, as he had turned sixteen just before Horseshoe Bend and at that time it would have been beyond belief that he would even live to see this age, much less be traveling along a distant road far to the west, still in one piece, alive and unaccountably happy.”
― Paulette Jiles, News of the World

“I believe that children in this country need a more robust literary diet than they are getting…. I will never talk down to, or draw down to, children.”
― Barbara Cooney