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Quotes About Wanderlust

His boredom was like a nostalgia for the whole world. He was homesick for everywhere but here.
~ Christopher Isherwood
Libraries are fascinating places; sometimes you feel you are under the canopy of a railway station, and when you read books about exotic places there's a feeling of traveling to distant lands.
~ Umberto Eco
He loved to saunter through fields of wild oats and corn-flowers, and busied himself with clouds nearly as much as with events.
~ Victor Hugo
What is more melancholy and more profound than to see a thousand objects for the first and the last time? To travel is to be born and to die at every instant;
~ Victor Hugo
The solitary man is a modified savage, accepted by civilization. He who wanders most is most alone; hence his continual change of place. To remain anywhere long, suffocated him with the sense of being tamed. He spent his life in moving on.
~ Victor Hugo
Everyone remembers their first taste of Paris
~ Kristin Hannah
I suppose, but that's not what I meant. I meant that in a way, I'm like Dorothée, aren't I? I'm on a great adventure, and one day, I'll find my way home.
~ Kristin Harmel
Because books bring us to another time and place," the
~ Kristin Harmel
I meant that in a way I'm like Dorothee, aren't I? I'm on a great adventure and one day I'll find my way home.
~ Kristin Harmel
If we walk far enough," says Dorothy, "we shall sometime come to someplace.
~ L. Frank Baum
He drifted about with his head full of myths, always at least half lost in some otherland of story. Demons and wingsmiths, seraphim and spirits, he love it all.
~ Laini Taylor
He had crossed continents and drunk starlight from rivers without names. There was no going back from that.
~ Laini Taylor
She craved the moonlight and the wind. She wanted to feel the infinite depth of space above and around her.
~ Laini Taylor
Do you want to go back to Vienna?" he said. Alec didn't answer, just stared into space. "Or we could go somewhere else," said Magnus. "Anywhere you want. Thailand, South Carolina, Brazil, Peru – Oh, wait, no, I'm banned from Peru. I'd forgotten about that. It's a long story, but amusing if you want to hear it.
~ Cassandra Clare
Jace) "Is there anything special you want to see? Paris? Budapest? The Leaning Tower of Pisa?" Only if it falls on Sebastian's head, she thought.
~ Cassandra Clare
I can't get enough adventure," Magnus said lightly. "And adventure cannot get enough of me.
~ Cassandra Clare
We have talked so much of travel," James said. "I wanted to give you the world.
~ Cassandra Clare
The sky was a road and the stars made pathways; the moon was a watchtower, a lighthouse that led you home.
~ Cassandra Clare
Story of her life. The first cute guy she'd seen in what felt like ages and she met him at a dive bar located in another state hours away from where she lived.
~ Cat Johnson
Each cup of tea represents an imaginary voyage.
~ Catherine Douzel
Okla ete ablotse. 'My spirit has traveled abroad even if my body has not.
~ Catherine E. McKinley
When one is traveling, everything looks brighter and lovelier. That does not mean it IS brighter and lovelier; it just means that sweet, kindly home suffers in comparison to tarted-up foreign places with all their jewels on.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
You haven't met your Way yet. It hasn't so much as kissed your hand! You haven't even at the door of the hall where your Way dances. But look here, look see, I've got them, I've caught them up just for you, a big bouquet of anywhere you want to go. Just pick a bloom, my girl, hold it to your pretty nose.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Quando alguém está a viajar, tudo parece mais luminoso e mais agradável, o que não significa que seja mais luminoso e mais agradável, significa apenas que o lar terno e aprazível sofre em comparação com lugares desconhecidos aprimorados, com tudo o que têm de melhor à mostra.
~ Catherynne M. Valente