“To remember is to open one door after another all along the white corridor to say Yes when asked, Are you anything? Did she love you?”— Robin Ekiss, poetryfoundation.org
“The biggest stars look at me with your eyes. And as I love you, the pines in the wind want to sing your name with their leaves of wire.”— Pablo Neruda, amazon.co.uk
“Will it be alright, if I love you from eyes to lips from skin to bones from heart to soul? Will it be alright, if I call you my home?”— Lukas W., somepiecesofmyheartandsoul.tumblr.com
“Two rules for kissing: 1. Don’t kiss someone who’s in love with someone else. 1a. Especially if you love whomever you’re kissing. 2. Don’t let someone who loves you kiss you when you don’t share their feelings. 2a. Especially if you’re in love with someone else.”— S.M., sydwritesstuff.tumblr.com
“They say in this case the first love will be the last love so what if the boy that got away thinks of you as the girl that got away and what if fate pulls this trick on you too?”— Annelies, hellomissmabel.tumblr.com
“All you will have is the present. Waste no energy crying over yesterday or dreaming of tomorrow. Nostalgia is fatiguing and destructive, it is the vice of the expatriate. You must put down roots as if they were forever, you must have a sense of permanence.”— Isabel Allende, imdb.com
“Travelling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things – air, sleep, dreams, the sea, the sky – all things tending towards the eternal or what we imag…”— Cesare Pavese, goodreads.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
“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
“Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.”— Terry Pratchett, goodreads.com
“Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that god damn mountain.”— Jack Kerouac, goodreads.com
“The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year, like the highest seat of a Ferris wheel when it pauses in its turning. The weeks that come before are only a climb from balmy spring, and those that follow a drop to the chill of autumn, but the first week of Au…”— Natalie Babbitt, amazon.com
“I think that one of these days," he said, "you're going to have to find out where you want to go. And then you've got to start going there. But immediately. You can't afford to lose a minute. Not you.”— J. D. Salinger, genius.com
“We all deal with fear of loneliness. But I think this fear dies a natural death when it reveals itself as universal. All living creatures are meant to be entwined, even plants, even the small particles in dust. We spend though our entire lives learning the natural skill that society lets us forget:…”— Ioana Cristina Casapu, ioanacasapu.com
“Do you think miners stand around all day talking about how hard it is to mine for coal? They do not. They simply dig.”— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.com
“Fiction can remind us — and because of the blood-sport nature of politics, we constantly need reminding — that the players in politics are first human beings.”— John Williams, nytimes.com
“You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you do—and they don’t. They have prejudices. They may like Henry James, but what if you don’t want to write like Henry James? They may like John Irving, for instance, who’s th…”— Ray Bradbury, books.google.com
“but writers, Garp knew, were just observers - good and ruthless imitators of human behavior.”— John Irving, amazon.com