Quotes About Journey

You are a soul out walking, carrying a lantern to light the world.

Maybe, I think, when you've waited a long time to see something, you need to find your way to it in glimpses.

The day en route to darkness. The guillotine on the way to the neck.

Solvitur ambulando , St. Augustine said. It is solved by walking.

reading is an adventure. It makes me an armchair traveler and takes me places I shall never be able to go.

I enjoyed reading when I was a boy, but these days, I read all the time and it has rather taken the pleasure out of it for me. When I am at leisure, reading is the last thing I want to do." "That makes sense, I suppose. But for me, reading is an adventure. It makes me an armchair traveler and takes me places I shall never be able to go.

I get cold - really cold - when I travel.

Everyone thinks everything's a waste of time when it's not the thing that leads to an answer.

Laura Lippman

What makes a romance romantic, the beginning or the end?

it feels like I've been thrown down a chute. I'm careening forward, trying not to get too banged up, utterly out of control of my descent, and somewhere in the dark, there's a hole waiting for me to fall through it.

Every step forward counts, every step forward makes the next one easier.

I had reached the end if the trail and the dead end of Willow Glen Road, which meant I had a long way to go, most of it uphill. I heard a bicycle, and because sometimes the world gives you what you want, the bicycle that streaked into view held Amiel.

My whole life reminded me of how it felt to ride, when Greenie and I were little, in the back of Greenie's mother's car, an ancient Pacer with a seat that faced backward and left us staring at places we'd already been and drivers who didn't want to make eye contact. I was facing the wrong direction, but time still went forward, gliding toward destinations I couldn't see or choose.

Adventure,' then, is what might otherwise be called hardship if it were attempted in a different spirit. Turning a difficult task or a perilous journey into an adventure is largely a matter of telling yourself the right story about it, which is one thing that Lewis's child characters have learned from reading, 'the right books.

I believe that there is a perfect someone for everyone, and I know that you still believe that too. There is a perfect someone, even if the road to that someone isn't all that perfect," he added.

We have but one dance to a lifetime of songs.

Buying a book is not about obtaining a possession... but about securing a portal.

This is how it is now. This is my life.

I am supposed to be where I go.

I am supposed to be where I go." -Joseph

is where I was born," he said. "Only that. I am supposed to be where I go.

On a day like today, there's no friend like a book.

I move onward, through the colors and cheers and music, floating into my future, and it is a clear, open space that stretches wider that the sky and higher than the Andes.