#rave

The more love I craved, the more distant and abusive he grew. The role I longed to play was never written into Ryan's script: daughter. ↗

— Tatum O'Neal

#daughter #distant #grew #i #into

I have a little theory that I'd like to air here, if I may. What is it that you think makes you magicians?" More silence. Fogg was well into rhetorical-question territory now anyway. He spoke more softly. "Is it because you are intelligent? Is it because you are brave and good? Is is because you're special? Maybe. Who knows. But I'll tell you something: I think you're magicians because you're unhappy. A magician is strong because he feels pain. He feels the difference between what the world is and what he would make of it. Or what did you think that stuff in your chest was? A magician is strong because he hurts more than others. His wound is his strength. Most people carry that pain around inside them their whole lives, until they kill the pain by other means, or until it kills them. But you, my friends, you found another way: a way to use the pain. To burn it as fuel, for light and warmth. You have learned to break the world that has tried to break you. ↗

— Lev Grossman

#bravery #fuel #intelligence #light #magic

The higher man is distinguished from the lower by his fearlessness and his readiness to challenge misfortune. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#higher-life #lower-life #struggle #life

You can't understand a city without using its public transportation system. ↗

— Erol Ozan

#public-transit #transportation #travel #traveling-alone #urban

Every place is a goldmine. You have only to give yourself time, sit in a teahouse watching the passers-by, stand in a corner of the market, go for a haircut. You pick up a thread – a word, a meeting, a friend of a friend of someone you have just met – and soon the most insipid, most insignificant place becomes a mirror of the world, a window on life, a theatre of humanity. ↗

— Tiziano Terzani

#traveling #watchfulness #life

Kiss a lover, Dance a measure, Find your name and buried treasure. Face your life, it's pain, it's pleasure, Leave no path untaken. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#life

But that’s the wonderful thing about foreign travel, suddenly you are five years old again. You can’t read anything, you have only the most basic sense of how things work, you can’t even reliably cross the street without endangering your life. Your whole existence becomes a series of interesting guesses. ↗

— Bill Bryan

#life

It is a bitter-sweet thing, knowing two cultures. Once you leave your birthplace nothing is ever the same. ↗

— Sarah Turnbull

#travel #life

Sometimes I think a man could wander across the disc all his life and not see everything there is to see,' said Twoflower. 'And now it seems there are lots of other worlds as well. When I think I might die without seeing a hundredth of all there is to see it makes me feel,' he paused, then added, 'well, humble, I suppose. And very angry, of course. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#wanderlust #life

Reaching out, I grab his hand and intertwine my fingers with his. And I move into his space until we're not even an inch from each other. Laying my forehead on his chest, I take a deep breath and feel his whole body relax, as if tension is rolling off his body in waves. I was always the kid who loved the smell of gasoline. His free hand comes up, and his fingers slip through my hair before his hand settles between my shoulder blades. "Ben," I say into his shirt. "Janelle," he whispers back, and I can feel his mouth against my hair. I can feel him smile. ↗

— Elizabeth Norris

#romance #science-fiction #science-fiction-romance #unraveling #ya