Latest Quotes

“Perhaps the less we have, the more we are required to brag.”

— John Steinbeck, East of Eden (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics)

“Today, SimilarWeb tells us that Pokémon Go did manage to surpass Twitter in terms of daily active users on Monday, and now sees 5.92 percent of the U.S. Android population engaging with the app on a daily basis.”

— Sarah Perez, Pokémon Go tops Twitter’s daily users, sees more engagement than Facebook

“Sometimes, something happens that jolts you to reality and causes you to reevaluate what’s important in life and what you really want out of it.”

— Kristin Addis, A Thousand New Beginnings: Tales of Solo Female Travel Through Southeast Asia

“I won’t let my scars keep me from living openly and spontaneously. It’ll just take some time to get there, and that’s okay.”

— Kristin Addis, A Thousand New Beginnings: Tales of Solo Female Travel Through Southeast Asia

“The past is okay with me. Everything that brought me to this point is just fine. All of the things that felt so good and so horrible in the moment led me to this point, and it’s all a learning experience anyways, isn’t it?”

— Kristin Addis, A Thousand New Beginnings: Tales of Solo Female Travel Through Southeast Asia

“When the travel does eventually end, as it will for all of us, what will we be left with? This question terrifies me every time I try to confront it.”

— Kristin Addis, A Thousand New Beginnings: Tales of Solo Female Travel Through Southeast Asia

“It would be absurd if we did not understand both angels and devils, since we invented them.”

— John Steinbeck, East of Eden (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics)

“There's more beauty in truth, even if it is dreadful beauty.”

— John Steinbeck, East of Eden (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics)

“I’ll wear this place like a thumbprint on my heart forever. It has changed me for the better.”

— Kristin Addis, A Thousand New Beginnings: Tales of Solo Female Travel Through Southeast Asia

“All great and precious things are lonely.”

— John Steinbeck, East of Eden (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics)

“I’m kind of shocked at how little I really need to be happy. Is this what traveling does to people? I think so.”

— Kristin Addis, A Thousand New Beginnings: Tales of Solo Female Travel Through Southeast Asia

“All I have ever really wanted out of the world is to see the whole of it.”

— Kristin Addis, A Thousand New Beginnings

“Out of fear, I held onto what was easy and familiar for years even though it was at odds with what my soul longed to do – I wanted to be free.”

— Kristin Addis, A Thousand New Beginnings: Tales of Solo Female Travel Through Southeast Asia

“I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible.”

— John Steinbeck, East of Eden (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics)

“Man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, and emerges ahead of his accomplishments.”

— John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

“I'm just pain covered with skin.”

— John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

“You got a God. Don't make no difference if you don't know what he looks like.”

— John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

“Fear the time when Manself will not suffer and die for a concept, for this one quality is man, distinctive in the universe.”

— John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

“It happens that every man in a bank hates what the bank does, and yet the bank does it. The bank is something more than men, I tell you. It’s the monster. Men made it, but they can’t control it.”

— John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

“If he needs a million acres to make him feel rich, seems to me he needs it 'cause he feels awful poor inside hisself, and if he's poor in hisself, there ain't no million acres gonna make him feel rich, an' maybe he's disappointed that nothin' he can do will make him feel rich.”

— John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath