“Anyone who travels also understands that this world is impossibly big while being surprisingly small and interconnected all at the same time. We’re humbled by what we’ve seen, and we know full-well that we’re not the biggest fish in the sea.”— Kristin Addis, thoughtcatalog.com
“We know it’s rude to point the bottom of your feet at someone in Thailand, we understand how to shake someone’s hand in Southern Africa, and we grasp that it’s important to say, ‘Bonjour’ when entering a store in France.”— Kristin Addis, thoughtcatalog.com
“Corporations negotiate with millions and travelers do so with dollars and cents – volume is really the only difference.”— Kristin Addis, thoughtcatalog.com
“The place to find the perfect out-of-the-box thinkers, problem solvers, and movers and shakers is the arrivals hall at an international airport.”— Kristin Addis, thoughtcatalog.com
“I think I’m better off spending my time in a relationship with myself, out exploring the world, becoming more in tune with the person who I will most definitely never break up with – me.”— Kristin Addis, thoughtcatalog.com
“Why can’t being single and free be as valuable and respected as the role of a mother or wife?”— Kristin Addis, thoughtcatalog.com
“When I join a local ceremony, hitchhike across a country, or learn how to ski, do I really need a counterpart there to legitimize that, to legitimize me?”— Kristin Addis, thoughtcatalog.com
“I don’t see ‘settling down’ as the end goal for my life. Maybe I’ll get married and have children and maybe I won’t.”— Kristin Addis, thoughtcatalog.com
“These days I spend more time in countries that are statically safer by a long-shot than the USA, so by leaving home I am actually decreasing the chances of something sinister happening.”— Kristin Addis, thoughtcatalog.com
“Each time I walk into a hostel I make five new friends, each time a local takes interest in why I’m alone, I get invited to a family dinner or a cool local ceremony.”— Kristin Addis, thoughtcatalog.com
“Maybe those around you expressed concern or tried to talk you out of it, because the idea of a girl traveling on her own still, unfortunately, draws some skepticism.”— Kristin Addis, thoughtcatalog.com
“If we end it right in the throes of infatuation, remembering it only for the nights entangled in romance and lust, before there could be any complications or hurt pride, then we’ll both be safe.”— Kristin Addis, thoughtcatalog.com
“I might know that you love Metallica thanks to Spotify but I may never know your Sunday morning routine.”— Kristin Addis, thoughtcatalog.com
“You see, the lovely thing about you is the person who you are right here, without the pressures of real life and the stress of where the next paycheck will come from.”— Kristin Addis, thoughtcatalog.com
“What should I do about the wild and the tame? The wild heart that wants to be free, and the tame heart that wants to come home. I want to be held. I don’t want you to come too close. I want you to scoop me up and bring me home at nights. I don’t want to tell you where I am. I want to keep a place am…”— Jeanette Winterson, amazon.com