Bryan

“disappeared beneath Soviet avenues of cracked concrete; how variety – medieval stone foundations, baroque seminarium doors, classical columns, Prussian red brick walls, and delicate shop windows – had vanished behind spectacular monotony; how churches and pastry shops, farmers’ markets, tobacconists, a university and schools and law courts gave way to numbered apartment blocks.”
― Anne Applebaum, Between East and West: Across the Borderlands of Europe

“What you have to consider,” he says, "is the possibility that God doesn’t like you. Could be, God hates us. This is not the worst thing that can happen.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“After half a day in a place—especially a foreign country—you’ve learned more than from all the books and articles you’ve read.”
― Thomas Swick, The Joys of Travel: And Stories That Illuminate Them

“Sometimes, when you go on foot there, when you walk in the woods near the old pagan temples, you feel something very strong. It is like the energy you feel in a church, or the energy you feel when a boy and a girl are in love and touch hands for the first time.”
― Anne Applebaum, Between East and West: Across the Borderlands of Europe