#rave

Mother, monogamy, romance. High spurts the fountain; fierce and foamy the wild jet. The urge has but a single outlet. My love, my baby. No wonder those poor pre-moderns were mad and wicked and miserable. Their world didn’t allow them to take things easily, didn’t allow them to be sane, virtuous, happy. What with mothers and lovers, what with the prohibitions they were not conditioned to obey, what with the temptations and the lonely remorses, what with all the diseases and the endless isolating pain, what with the uncertainties and the poverty—they were forced to feel strongly. And feeling strongly (and strongly, what was more, in solitude, in hopelessly individual isolation), how could they be stable? ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#love

And it’s all my fault, Gale. Because of what I did in the arena. If I had just killed myself with those berries, none of this would’ve happened. Peeta could have come home and lived, and everyone else would have been safe, too.” “Safe to do what?” he says in a gentler tone. “Starve? Work like slaves? Send their kids to the reaping? You haven’t hurt people – you’ve given them an opportunity. They just have to be brave enough to take it. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#opportunity #rebellion #rebellion

The Wanderlust has got me... by the belly-aching fire ↗

— Robert W. Service

#traveling #wanderlust #service

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness. ↗

— Mark Twain

#travel #prejudice

I believe that Marrakech ought to be earned as a destination. The journey is the preparation for the experience. Reaching it too fast derides it, makes it a little less easy to understand. ↗

— Tahir Shah

#marrakech #travel #experience

He's a pit bull," Adam said. "I know some really nice pit bulls." "He's the kind of pit that makes the evening news. Gansey's trying to restrain him." "How noble. ↗

— Maggie Stiefvater

#blue #lol #pit-bulls #raven-boys #noble

His older self had taught his younger self a language which the older self knew because the younger self, after being taught, grew up to be the older self and was, therefore, capable of teaching. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#teaching #time-travel #paradox

Travelers, there is no path, paths are made by walking. ↗

— Antonio Machado

#path #paths #travelers #walking

Have you ever wondered how nostalgia isn"t what it used to be? ↗

— Jasper Fforde

#time-travel #nostalgia

We never know how high we are Till we are called to rise; And then, if we are true to plan, Our statures touch the skies. The heroism we recite Would be a daily thing, Did not ourselves the cubits warp For fear to be a king. ↗

— Emily Dickinson

#confidence #fear #poetry #self #heroism