#trave

Augustus," I said. "Really. You don't have to do this." "Sure I do," he said. "I found my Wish." "God, you're the best," I told him. "I bet you say that to all the boys who finance your international travel," he answered. ↗

— John Green

#travel #wish #love

may came home with a smooth round stone as small as a world and as large as alone. ↗

— E.E. Cummings

#poetry #travel #travel

Today is the tomorrow we worried about yesterday. ↗

— Ann Brashares

#travel

Every dreamer knows that it is entirely possible to be homesick for a place you've never been to, perhaps more homesick than for familiar ground. ↗

— Judith Thurman

#explore #travel #travel

Think for a minute, darling: in fairy tales it's always the children who have the fine adventures. The mothers have to stay at home and wait for the children to fly in the window. ↗

— Audrey Niffenegger

#mothers #travel

The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives. She went on olden-day sailing ships with Joseph Conrad. She went to Africa with Ernest Hemingway and to India with Rudyard Kipling. She travelled all over the world while sitting in her little room in an English village. ↗

— Roald Dahl

#literature #reading #words #travel

Luckily, I always travel with a book, just in case I have to wait on line for Santa, or some such inconvenience. ↗

— David Levithan

#lines #reading #travel

When she awoke, the world was on fire. ↗

— Scott Westerfeld

#awoke #fire #full-metal-alchemist #naruto #shay

I'm living under water. Everything seems slow and far away. I know there's a world up there, a sunlit quick world where time runs like dry sand through an hourglass, but down here, where I am, air and sound and time and feeling are thick and dense. ↗

— Audrey Niffenegger

#travel

Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#travel #travel