Quotes About Journey

He moved through his mind with the assuredness of an explorer and the grace of a poet.

He had crossed continents and drunk starlight from rivers without names. There was no going back from that.

Walking through, Karou experienced it all in a rush of old and new experience that was like the convergence of two swift rivers: Madrigal's memory and Karou's marvel, merging at every step.

His soul had flown on ahead of his body and left it stranded.

And… it's like all my life I've been this tower standing at the edge of the ocean for some obscure purpose, and only now, almost eighteen years in, has someone thought to flip the switch that reveals that I'm not a tower at all. I'm a lighthouse.

It was a new idea for him, that happiness wasn't a mystical place to be reached or won—some bright terrain beyond the boundary of misery, a paradise waiting for them to find it—but something to carry doggedly with you through everything, as humble and ordinary as your gear and supplies.

It was a new idea for him, that happiness wasn't a mystical place to be reached or won—some bright terrain beyond the boundary of misery, a paradise waiting for them to find it—but something to carry doggedly with you through everything, as humble and ordinary as your gear and supplies. Food, weapons, happiness

and when the Tizerkane warriors rode out of the Great Library and out of Zosma, Strange the dreamer went with them.

It was a new idea for him, that happiness wasn't a mystical place to be reached or won, but something to carry doggedly with you through everything.

Akiva lived, and was changed.

Wrapped in tissue, safe from harm, and all they knew of life was gala events and the inside of the box. How dull. How dumb. By contrast, the grime of her journey, the outré inappropriateness of the state of her, it felt like armor. I earned this dirt. Respect. The dirt. "That's right," she said.

And once upon a time, survival had seemed like an end unto itself. But now... it began to feel like an expedient with no object. Survive for what?

Karou? Akita conocía esa palabra. Significaba <>

If Eliza had been a whiner, or a prima donna, or some kind of loud chewer or something, this journey could have been a nightmare.

It was absurd that he should find himself back in his old life as if he were the same creature he had been before a blue-haired girl brushed past him in a narrow street in another world.

Dreams have their rhythms, their deeps and shallows.

A different sort of life, she thought, and the words became a mantra to the melody of the Emberlin. A different sort of life, a different sort of life. Where

Nosotros somos el principio, escuchó dentro de su cabeza, y lo sintió como una oración. Siempre lo hemos sido. Esta vez, dejemos que sea algo más que un principio.

lost and found, both lighter and heavier at the same time.

Just to find you and be in the world that you're in…

You can't ever know when the dead world will come to you. Only that it will.

Janie said she thought you'd make it through. That you'd keep finding things worth finding.

El Señor nos había dado ojos para ver y pies para llevarnos a sitios donde pudiera verse todo, dijo. Era cosa nuestra salir y ver, salir y contemplar. Ese era nuestro trabajo. Debíamos atarnos bien los cordones de los zapatos y ponernos a ello. Lo peor que podía pasarnos era que fracasáramos. Y el fracaso solo significaba que habíamos tenido agallas suficientes para intentarlo.

Ve. Ve, y a ver qué hay en ti.