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

“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

“The space monkey continues, "Our culture has made us all the same. No one is truly white or black or rich, anymore. We all want the same. Individually, we are nothing.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“No family ever put an airport under its Christmas tree.”
― Thomas Swick, The Joys of Travel: And Stories That Illuminate Them