“I learned I’m prone to run. I always choose men who ultimately I know will set me free. Past my cries for companionship lie something much deeper- a need to be independent.”— Ashley Lipscomb, thoughtcatalog.com
“When you walk alone, eat alone, take trains and planes alone, you just learn to believe that the kindness of strangers is sometimes more valuable than the insecurity of long lasting relationships in your life.”— Ioana Cristina Casapu, ioanacasapu.com
“Every new place you visit, person you encounter, new aromas you smell or things you see will make your brain unchain. It is then when your thinking will spark in new creative directions. Use this to make great things for yourself (or for others) happen. Have a project, write a blog, take cooking les…”— Laura Beltrán Villamizar, laurabelvilla.com
“Do you know what the three most exciting sounds in the world are? Anchor chains, airplane motors and train whistles.”— George Bailey, James Stewart, imdb.com
“I see my path, but I don’t know where it leads. Not knowing where I’m going is what inspires me to travel it.”— Rosalia De Castro, goodreads.com
“I realized the importance of curves, of the thousand places where girls' bodies ease from one place to another, from arc of the foot to ankle to calf, from calf to hip to waist to breast to neck to ski-slope nose to forehead to shoulder to the concave arch of the back to the butt to the etc. I'd not…”— John Green, Miles 'Pudge' Halter, amazon.com
“And if travel is like love, it is, in the end, mostly because it’s a heightened state of awareness, in which we are mindful, receptive, in dimmed by familiarity and ready to be transformed. That is why the best trips, like the best love affairs, never really end.”— Pico Iyer, goodreads.com
“There’s something about arriving in new cities, wandering empty streets with no destination. I will never lose the love for the arriving, but I’m born to leave.”— Charlotte Eriksson, goodreads.com
“Travelling isn’t always about running away from things, sometimes it’s about running into what you truly want.”— American Nomad On Twitter, youbackpacking.com
“I think I fell in love with her, a little bit. Isn't that dumb? But it was like I knew her. Like she was my oldest, dearest friend. The kind of person you can tell anything to, no matter how bad, and they'll still love you, because they know you. I wanted to go with her. I wanted her to notice me. A…”— Neil Gaimon, amazon.com
“and he suddenly knew that if she killed herself, he would die. Maybe not immediately, maybe not with the same blinding rush of pain, but it would happen. You couldn't live for very long without a heart.”— Jodi Picoult, amazon.com
“And at the end of the day, your feet should be dirty, you hair messy, and your eyes sparkling”— Shanti, goodreads.com
“In the dark beside me, she smelled of sweat and sunshine and vanilla.”— John Green, Alaska Young, amazon.com
“I feel like my life is so scattered right now. Like it’s all the small pieces of paper and someone’s turned on the fan. But, talking to you makes me feel like the fan’s been turned off for a little bit. Like things could actually make sense. You completely unscatter me, and I appreciate that so much…”— John Green, amazon.com
“But it is the nature of stars to cross, and never was Shakespeare more wrong than when he has Cassius note, ‘The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars / But in ourselves.”— John Green, amazon.com
“Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.”— Anaïs Nin, amazon.com
“Antidepressants. The thought of this girl actually being depressed made me want to grab the whole planet and throw it into the sun. Well, more than usual anyway.”— David Wong, amazon.com