#rave

I had been afraid of the primitive, had wanted it broken gently, but here it came on us in a breath, as we stumbled up through the dung and the cramped and stinking huts to our lampless sleeping place among the rats. It was the worst one need fear, and it was bearable because it was inescapable. ↗

— Graham Greene

#primitive #travel #experience

Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed. ↗

— Thomas Ken

#dread #grave #i #little #live

You know, my friends, with what a brave carouse I made a Second Marriage in my house; favored old barren reason from my bed, and took the daughter of the vine to spouse. ↗

— Omar Khayyam

#bed #brave #daughter #favored #friends

Why would you stick someone you love down in a lonely hole in the dirt? Where it's cold, and dirty, and full of bugs? ↗

— Kami Garcia

#hole #love #beauty

Yeah. I've been pretty fortunate to travel I guess, all around the place. ↗

— Ben E. King

#been #fortunate #guess #i #place

He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood. ↗

— Florence King

#double #fastest #feminism #goes #real

My school in St. Louis is great. They basically created a program where I can do online classes and independent studies when I'm traveling. But then I still get to go home and take classes in a normal school environment. ↗

— Karlie Kloss

#classes #created #environment #get #go

Travel is a joy, full of surprises. Perhaps some of the most enjoyable times are those where one comes close to disaster: the risks add spice, and make for great stories when you are safely back home again. ↗

— Jane Wilson-Howarth

#art

My bravery however was the effect of assurance for could I have believed the current report, I should have fled as fast as any man, no man can possibly have a greater reluctance to an intimacy with Sir William Howe than my Self. ↗

— Henry Laurens

#assurance #believed #bravery #could #current

Silas consumed only one food, and it was not bananas. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#blood #book #fantasy #food #funny