“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
“America, we need more cities organized like those in Europe. Sorry, BP, you (and your profits) can suck an egg.”— 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
“We skirt the issue of tomorrow and with every passing day, when each sunset lights up the sky, we pretend that the shelf life this has doesn’t exist.”— Kristin Addis, thoughtcatalog.com
“When the travel does eventually end, as it will for all of us, what will we be left with? This question terrifies me every time I try to confront it.”— Kristin Addis, amazon.com
“I’ll wear this place like a thumbprint on my heart forever. It has changed me for the better.”— Kristin Addis, amazon.com
“I’m kind of shocked at how little I really need to be happy. Is this what traveling does to people? I think so.”— Kristin Addis, amazon.com
“All I have ever really wanted out of the world is to see the whole of it.”— Kristin Addis, amazon.com
“Out of fear, I held onto what was easy and familiar for years even though it was at odds with what my soul longed to do – I wanted to be free.”— Kristin Addis, amazon.com
“I want to do everything on earth with you. I want to float down rivers, traverse deserts, scale mountains and submerge ourselves into the sea. I want to take on a lifetime worth of challenges alongside you but most of all, I want to come home to you.”— Heidi Priebe, thoughtcatalog.com
“Live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.”— Ray Bradbury, amazon.com
“Look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is your time on earth filled with glory.”— Betty Smith, amazon.com
“Life is a sequence of births and deaths. Moments are born and moments die. For new experiences to come to light, old ones need to wither away.”— Elif Shafak, amazon.com
“There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.”— Robert Louis Stevenson, amazon.com