“And I catch myself thinking today that our long journey had only defiled with a sinuous trail of slime the lovely, trustful, dreamy, enormous country that by then, in retrospect, was no more to us than a collection of dog-eared maps, ruined tour books, old tires, and her sobs in the night— every nig…”— Vladimir Nabokov, amazon.com
“Travel does not exist without home....If we never return to the place we started, we would just be wandering, lost. Home is a reflecting surface, a place to measure our growth and enrich us after being infused with the outside world.”— Josh Gates, amazon.com
“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
“Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.”— Terry Pratchett, amazon.com
“Thomas Edison's last words were "It's very beautiful over there". I don't know where there is, but I believe it's somewhere, and I hope it's beautiful.”— John Green, amazon.com
“Be the girl who travels and reawaken your sense of hope in the world. Let it change you, transform you, and give you a sort of longing that few other things ever will.”— Jerrica Peterson, thoughtcatalog.com
“I want to be someone else somewhere else with something else to fill my mind.”— Tahereh Mafi, amazon.com
“Home isn’t where you’re from, it’s where you find light when all grows dark.”— Pierce Brown, amazon.com
“For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.”— Robert Louis Stevenson, amazon.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
“Home is not where you were born; home is where all your attempts to escape cease.”— Naguib Mahfouz, pinterest.com