“Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.”— Anaïs Nin, amazon.com
“I think that we are like stars. Something happens to burst us open; but when we burst open and think we are dying; we’re actually turning into a supernova. And then when we look at ourselves again, we see that we’re suddenly more beautiful than we ever were before.”— C. Joybell C., goodreads.com
“Travel offers a chrysalis for change like nothing else — it practically screams metamorphosis. Leave home and suddenly you can be anyone you want.”— Lavinia Spalding, amazon.com
“I think it is very important for people to run away...from home, from the mainstream, from their family, from the culture, from the society that produced them...because the moment I have to learn something new, like new habits, new languages, I myself have something like a rebirth. I reduce myself t…”— Saul Steinberg, youtube.com