“Adventure is making the distant approach nearer but romance is having what is where it is which is not where you are stay where it is.”— Gertrude Stein, en.wikiquote.org
“But I always liked side-paths, little dark back-alleys behind the main road—there one finds adventures and surprises, and precious metal in the dirt.”— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, amazon.com
“The only people who ever get anyplace interesting are the people who get lost.”— Henry David Thoreau, strengthawakening.com
“Books became her friends and there was one for every mood. There was poetry for quiet companionship. There was adventure when she tired of quiet hours. There would be love stories when she came into adolescence and when she wanted to feel a closeness to someone she could read a biography. On that da…”— Betty Smith, amazon.com
“It seems to me that I’m a tourist to life…I’m an observer of it.”— Isabella Rossellini, indexmagazine.com
“There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you.”— Beatrix Potter, amazon.com
“To be away from home and yet to feel oneself everywhere at home; to see the world, to be at the centre of the world, and yet to remain hidden from the world.”— Charles Baudelaire, amazon.com
“But I always liked side-paths, little dark back-alleys behind the main road—there one finds adventures and surprises, and precious metal in the dirt.”— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, amazon.com
“Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life - and travel - leaves marks on you. Most of the time, those marks - on your body or on your heart - are beautiful. Often, though, they hurt.”— Anthony Bourdain, amazon.com
“Traveling’s not something you’re good at. It’s something you do. Like breathing. You can’t work too much at it, or it feels like work. You have to surrender yourself to the chaos. To the accidents.”— Gayle Forman, amazon.com