“When they say 'boys' they not talking about us. They talking about other boys from other places. When did we ever get to be boys?”— Ava DuVernay, Robin Swicord, Raymond Santana, Freddy Miyares, imdb.com
“Some places are like people: some shine and some don't.”— Stanley Kubrick, Diane Johnson, Dick Hallorann, Scatman Crothers, imdb.com
“Friend: Let's go somewhere else. Eddy: Where? You know I don't like places!”— Evangeline Ordaz, Nancy C. Mejia, Eddy, Ser Anzoategui, imdb.com
“What did the stamp say to the envelope? Stick with me and we'll go places.”— TheBeepsInMyImmortal, reddit.com
“Fantasy is often better than reality. It’s much more inspiring not to go to places than to go.”— Karl Lagerfeld, en.wikiquote.org
“How marvelous books are, crossing worlds and centuries, defeating ignorance and, finally, cruel time itself.”— Gore Vidal, amazon.com
“Everything (he kept saying) is something it isn't. And everybody is always somewhere else.”— E. B. White, fiction.eserver.org
“The places we have known do not belong solely to the world of space in which we situate them for our greater convenience. They were only a thin slice among contiguous impressions which formed our life at that time; the memory of a certain image is but regret for a certain moment; and houses, roads,…”— Marcel Proust, amazon.com
“I’ve been homesick for countries I’ve never been, and longed to be where I couldn’t be.”— John Cheever, amazon.com
“I am a product of long corridors, empty sunlit rooms, upstairs indoor silences, attics explored in solitude, distant noises of gurgling cisterns and pipes, and the noise of wind under the tiles. Also, of endless books.”— C. S. Lewis, amazon.com
“I don't know if I am heading toward heaven or that other, dark place, but I know I have already lived in heaven for fifty years. Thank you, Provincetown.”— Mary Oliver, amazon.com
“How can you separate those things though? The people are the place is the people.”— John Green, amazon.com
“We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place, we stay there, even though we go away. And there are things in us that we can find again only by going back there.”— Pascal Mercier
“There was a time when mapmakers named the places they travelled through with the names of lovers rather than their own.”— Michael Ondaatje, amazon.com
“Sometimes you have to live in precarious and temporary places. Unsuitable places. Wrong places. Sometimes the safe place won’t help you.”— Jeanette Winterson, amazon.com