Quotes About Exploration

We are not quite short stories. At

Why is any one book different from any other book? They are different, A.J. decides, because they are. We have to look inside many. We have to believe. We agree to be disappointed sometimes so that we can be exhilarated every now and again. He

The best way to get to Margarettown is to 'try' to get lost.

No Man Is an Island; Every Book Is a World Inside

Ninguém viaja sem propósito. Aqueles que estão perdidos querem estar perdidos.

Sam considered his French fries. "Are there other worlds?

The store is seven Mayas wide and twelve Mayas long. She knows this because she once spent an afternoon measuring it by lying her body across the room. It is fortunate that it is not more than twenty Mayas long because that is as far as she could count on the day the measurements were taken.

En su opinión, con solo que la gente diera una oportunidad a muchas cosas, se resolverían la mayoría de sus problemas.

The wallpaper has a bumpy, swirling pattern, and it is pleasing to rub her face against it. She will read the word damask in a book one day and think, Yes, of course that's what it's called. In contrast, the word wainscoting will come as a huge disappointment.

It's like Oz and Kansas, if Dorothy could switch between them the whole time.

I have thoughts about this. Remember that a fine education can be found in places other than the usual.

Katkad knjigama treba vremena da nas prona?u.

that a fine education can be found in places other than the usual.

Dallas–Fort Worth airport to Grapevine, Texas

Maybe an old favorite like Old School by Tobias Wolff, though his time would certainly be better spent on something new.

In Amelia's experience, most people's problems would be solved if they would only give more things a chance. Amelia

They should tell you when you're born: have a suitcase heart, be ready to travel.

We lived here for each other, and for everyone else we loved within twenty miles, and for all the good reasons people live where they live. They need the view of a wheat field or an ocean; they need the smell of a thunderstorm or the sound of a city. Or they need to leave, so they can invent what they need someplace else.

A library is infinity under a roof.

The history of American women is all about leaving home—crossing

Even with the best of maps and instruments, we can never fully chart our journeys.

People say, what is she thinking? I'm thinking: fun cash travel.

man who dropped into New York State on a carpetbag

Trying to stabilize—that is what the twenties are all about. The