#ravel

One's destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things. ↗

— Henry Miller

#travel

I read; I travel; I become ↗

— Derek Walcott

#travel #travel

Maybe you had to leave in order to really miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved your starting point was. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#travel

Half the fun of the travel is the esthetic of lostness. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#travel

there was another reason [she] took her books whenever they went away. they were her home when she was somewhere strange. they were familiar voices, friends that never quarreled with her, clever, powerful friends -- daring and knowledgeable, tried and tested adventurers who had traveled far and wide. her books cheered her up when she was sad and kept her from being bored ↗

— Cornelia Funke

#travel

Wherever you go, you take yourself with you. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#you #travel

You forget everything. The hours slip by. You travel in your chair through centuries you seem seem to see before you, your thoughts are caught up in the story, dallying with the details or following the course of the plot, you enter into characters, so that it seems as if it were your own heart beating beneath their costumes. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#literature #reading #travel

Know that love is truly timeless. ↗

— Mary M. Ricksen

#romance #time-travel #trust #love

I saw in their eyes something I was to see over and over in every part of the nation- a burning desire to go, to move, to get under way, anyplace, away from any Here. They spoke quietly of how they wanted to go someday, to move about, free and unanchored, not toward something but away from something. I saw this look and heard this yearning everywhere in every states I visited. Nearly every American hungers to move. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#perceptive #travel #perception

One must travel, to learn. Every day, now, old Scriptural phrases that never possessed any significance for me before, take to themselves a meaning. ↗

— Mark Twain

#scripture