Quotes about the trip
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“Civilization is the way one's own people live. Savagery is the way foreigners live.”

Source: Wild Seed

“You know I'm old in some ways-in others-well, I'm just a little girl. I like sunshine and pretty things and cheerfulness-and I dread responsibility.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book This Side of Paradise

Source: This Side of Paradise

Girl

“Just tell me how to be different in a way that makes sense.”

Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Sense

“Speaking of ways, pet, by the way, there is such a thing as a tesseract.”

Madeleine L'Engle book A Wrinkle in Time

Mrs Whatsit, Ch. 1
Source: A Wrinkle in Time (1962)

“How could you…? How?"
"Logically you have no right to be angry. I simply followed your lead."
…"No," She managed.
"There is no other way.”

Eoin Colfer (1965) Irish author of children's books

Source: The Last Guardian

“Becoming pretty doesn't just change the way you look," she said. "No," David said. "It changes the way you think.”

Scott Westerfeld book Uglies

Source: Uglies

Thinking, Change

“We stay this way until twilight colours the window and the hour calls me home”

David Levithan Boy Meets Boy

Source: Boy Meets Boy

Home

“I loved this woman the way you love… well, nothing," he said, a note of suprise in his voice. "You can’t compare that kind of love to anything, can you? It’s its own unique gift.”

Dennis Lehane book Shutter Island

Source: Shutter Island

Love

“and then there are some who
believe that old
relationships can be
revived and made new
again.

but please
if you feel that way

don't phone
don't write
don't arrive”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

Feeling

“What nobody understood then is this: The only way that you achieve what you want and fulfill your dreams and become great is by demanding that sort of attention. You have to make it happen.”

Augusten Burroughs book Running with Scissors

Source: Running with Scissors

Dreams

“That I was not suited to commerce or academic study in no way proves that I should also be unfit to be a painter.”

Vincent Van Gogh (1853–1890) Dutch post-Impressionist painter (1853-1890)

Study

“He was going through one of those moments that you read about in books, when a character reacts in an unexpectedly extreme way to the normal discontents of living.”

Elena Ferrante book The Days of Abandonment

Source: The Days of Abandonment

Books, Reading

“That was a long time ago, but it's wrong what they say about the past, I've learned, about how you can bury it. Because the past claws its way out.”

Khaled Hosseini book The Kite Runner

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Variant: It's wrong what they say about the past, I've learned, about how you can bury it. Because the past claws its way out.
Source: The Kite Runner (2003)

Learning, Time, Past

“Being polite is not only the right way to respond to people but also the easiest. Life is so filled with unavoidable conflict that I see no reason to promote more confrontations.”

Dean Koontz Odd Thomas

Source: Odd Thomas

Life, People

“There is sorrow enough in the natural way
From men and woman to fill our day;
But when we are certain of sorrow in store,
Why do we always arrange for more?
Brothers & Sisters, I bid you beware
Of giving your heart to a dog to tear.”

Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) English short-story writer, poet, and novelist

Men, Dogs, Nature, Sister

“The best way to treat obstacles is to use them as stepping-stones. Laugh at them, tread on them, and let them lead you to something better.”

Enid Blyton (1897–1968) author

Source: Mr Galliano's Circus

“If you think you can - you can!
If you think you can not - you can not!
And either way…….. you are right!”

Shiv Khera (1961) Indian politician

Thinking

“If it would benefit you, I would kill every wolf here. But there are things that you need to do -- and interfering with that is not protecting, not in my book. The best way for me to protect you is to encourage you to be able to protect yourself.”

Patricia Briggs book Hunting Ground

Source: Hunting Ground

Books, Wolf

“No one is anyone, one single immortal man is all men. Like Cornelius Agrippa, I am god, I am hero, I am philosopher, I am demon and I am world, which is a tedious way of saying that I do not exist.”

Jorge Luis Borges book The Immortal

"The Immortal" (1949)

Men, God, World

“I now know that some people feel unhappiness the way others love: privately, intensely, and without recourse.”

Khaled Hosseini book And the Mountains Echoed

Source: And the Mountains Echoed

Love, People, Feeling

“Now, for the first time, he's seeing that there really is a way out of this, and it's all so simple. You don't have to run away. You just meet somebody special and step sideways into a parallel universe.”

Irvine Welsh book Skagboys

Source: Skagboys

Universe, Time

“If chaos is a necessary step in the organization of one's universe, then I was well on my way.”

Wendelin Van Draanen Flipped

Source: Flipped

Universe

“I wish you way more than luck.”

David Foster Wallace (1962–2008) American fiction writer and essayist

Source: This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life

“The glory of a good tale is that it is limitless and fluid; a good tale belongs to each reader in its own particular way.”

Stephen King (1947) American author

“The only way that we can protect each other is if we are together. If we face things together. If we trust each other.”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

“Love was in the air so both of us walked through love on our way to the corner.”

Daniel Handler book Adverbs

Source: Adverbs (2006), Immediately

Love

“For me to see is to read. It has always been that way.”

Diane Setterfield book The Thirteenth Tale

Source: The Thirteenth Tale

Reading

“With that, he pushed his way out… and as the door eased shut, she realizedcould indeed be said without actually uttering the phrase. Actions did mean more than words.”

Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist

Source: Lover Unleashed

“He was gazing at her, the way one did when one felt one was unobserved. He had that look on his face, the look he usually got only when he was playing the violin, as if he were completely caught up and entranced.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

“We can do this the easy way,' Oblivious snarled. 'Or the hard way.'
'What's the easy way?'
'You leave immediately.'
'And what's the hard way?'
'We make you leave.'
Skulduggery's head tilted. 'What was the easy way again?”

Derek Landy (1974) Irish children's writer

Source: Death Bringer

“What? Were you born stupid, or did you just die that way?”

Neal Shusterman book Everlost

Source: Everlost

Stupidity

“Thanks to my mother, not a single cardboard box has found its way back into society. We receive gifts in boxes from stores that went out of business twenty years ago.”

Erma Bombeck (1927–1996) When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent le…

Business, Box

“She took the facts and in a natural way charged them with tension; she intensified reality as she reduced it to words, she injected it with energy.”

Elena Ferrante book My Brilliant Friend

Source: My Brilliant Friend

Nature, Reality

“And when you love a book, commit one glorious sentence of it-perhaps your favorite sentence-to memory. That way you won't forget the language of the story that moved you to tears.”

John Irving In One Person

Source: In One Person

Love, Books, Tear, Memory

“It was almost like fear, in the way it filled me, rising in my chest. It was almost like tears, in how swiftly it came. But it was neither of those, buoyant where they were heavy, bright were they dull.”

Madeline Miller book The Song of Achilles

Source: The Song of Achilles

Fear, Tear

“I just want God. I want God inside me. I want God to play in my bloodstream the way sunlight amuses itself on water.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Variant: I want God to play in my bloodstream the way sunlight amuses itself on the water.
Source: Eat, Pray, Love

God, Water

“To simply think about the people, as the dominators do, without any self-giving in that thought, to fail to think with the people, is a sure way to cease being revolutionary leaders.”

Paulo Freire book Pedagogy of the Oppressed

Source: Pedagogia do oprimido (Pedagogy of the Oppressed) (1968, English trans. 1970)

People, Thinking

“There are a thousand ways to hurt someone you love that have nothing to do with physical violence.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Cerulean Sins

Source: Cerulean Sins

Love, Hurt

“We are the offspring of history, and must establish our own paths in this most diverse and interesting of conceivable universes—one indifferent to our suffering, and therefore offering us maximum freedom to thrive, or to fail, in our own chosen way.”

Stephen Jay Gould (1941–2002) American evolutionary biologist

History, Freedom, Suffering, Universe

“A mathematical formula for happiness:Reality divided by Expectations. There were two ways to be happy:improve your reality or lower your expectations.”

Jodi Picoult book Nineteen Minutes

Source: Nineteen Minutes

Mathematics, Reality

“The only good thing about having your back to the wall is that it makes it really easy to choose which way you're going to go.”

Jim Butcher book Cold Days

Source: Cold Days

“I prefer to think that I'm liar in a way that's uniquely my own.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Variant: Actually," said Jace, "I prefer to think that I'm a liar in a way that's uniquely my own.
Source: City of Ashes

Thinking

“Then love knew it was called love.
And when I lifted my eyes to your name,
suddenly your heart showed me my way”

Pablo Neruda (1904–1973) Chilean poet

Source: Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada; Cien sonetos de amor

Love, Heart

“The problem is I can think whatever I think but I still feel the way I feel.”

E. Lockhart (1967) American writer of novels as E. Lockhart (mainly for teenage girls) and of picture books under real name Emily J…

Source: The Boyfriend List: 15 Guys, 11 Shrink Appointments, 4 Ceramic Frogs and Me, Ruby Oliver

Feeling, Problem, Thinking

“I have always considered it despicable to grovel for your life as if life were a favor. If you cannot live the way you want, there is no point in living”

Reinaldo Arenas (1943–1990) Cuban poet/novelist/playwright

Life

“Later," Fang said to Ella and Dr. Martinez in that gushy, hyperemotional, overdramatic way he has.”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports

“Over, under, around, or through. There is always a way.
- Soteria”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Acheron

“That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along.”

Madeleine L'Engle (1918–2007) American writer

“… sometimes you just want the comfort of knowing that somebody really does care about you (even if they show it in peculiar ways).”

Cara Lockwood (1973) American writer

Source: I Do -- But I Don't

“I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.”

Jimi Hendrix (1942–1970) American musician, singer and songwriter

If 6 Was 9
Song lyrics, Axis: Bold as Love (1967)
Source: Jimi Hendrix - Axis: Bold as Love

Life, Time

“Look at him now, poor fellow. That's what a dose of reality does for you… Never touch the stuff myself, you understand. Find it gets in the way of the hallucinations.”

Alan Moore (1953) English writer primarily known for his work in comic books

Understanding, Reality

“The thing was, if I had found a way to escape- even for just a little while- I knew the pain would be there waiting for me when I got back.”

Neal Shusterman (1962) American novelist

Source: Bruiser

Pain, Waiting

“There ain't no way you can hold onto something that wants to go, you understand? You can only love what you got while you got it.”

Kate DiCamillo book Because of Winn-Dixie

Source: Because of Winn-Dixie

Love, Understanding

“Sidda can't help herself. She just loves books. Loves the way they feel, the way they smell, loves the black letters marching across the white pages…”

Rebecca Wells book Little Altars Everywhere

Source: Little Altars Everywhere

Love, Books, Feeling, Help

“There's something so universal about that sensation, the way running unites our two most primal impulses: fear and pleasure. We run when we're scared, we run when we're ecstatic, we run away from our problems and run around for a good time.”

Christopher McDougall (1962) American journalist and writer

Source: Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen

Pleasure, Fear, Problem, Universe

“Faith is a cop-out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can't be taken on its own merits. It is intellectual bankruptcy.”

Dan Barker (1949) American atheist activist

Source: Losing Faith in Faith: From Preacher to Atheist

Faith

“If we hope to go anywhere or develop ourselves in any way, we can only step from where we are standing. If we don't really know where we are standing… We may only go in circles…”

Jon Kabat-Zinn (1944) American academic

Source: Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life

Hope

“There's no way the new chimney will fall down, Lu. Not with you in charge. It wouldn't dare.”

Angie Sage book Fyre

Source: Fyre

“An Outside Context Problem was the sort of thing most civilisations encountered just once, and which they tended to encounter rather in the same way a sentence encountered a full stop.”

Iain Banks book Excession

Source: Excession

Problem

“There's another problem," Percy said. "I'm not good with air travel. It's dangerous for a son of Neptune."
"You'll have to risk it… and so will I," Frank said. "By the way, we're related."
Percy almost stumbled off the roof. "What?”

Rick Riordan book The Son of Neptune

Source: The Son of Neptune

Travel, Problem

“Take it from me, there's nothing like a job well done. Except the quiet enveloping darkness at the bottom of a bottle of Jim Beam after a job done any way at all.”

Stephen Colbert (1964) American political satirist, writer, comedian, television host, and actor

“I just look at her and she creeps me out. She looks like she would eat a baby. Not that she's fat. She just looks hungry in some dangerous way that can't be explained. She's always so nice and friendly. Exactly the disposition of a baby killer.”

Augusten Burroughs book Running with Scissors

Source: Running with Scissors

Baby

“Crowds of questions stream through me like lines of people exiting a soccer ground or a concert. They push and shove and trip. Some make their way around. Some remain in their seats, waiting for their opportunity.”

Markus Zusak (1975) Australian author

Source: I Am the Messenger

People, Question, Waiting

“I just want it to go back to the way it was."
"It'll never go back to the way it was, Frankie. But you have to make sure it goes forward.”

Melina Marchetta (1965) Australian teen writer

Source: Saving Francesca

“I love the way she projects two facets: a visible persona and a subterranean one. She keeps her thoughts to herself; she seems to suggest that her secret, inner life is at least as significant as the appearance she gives.”

Francois Truffaut (1932–1984) film director

Love, Life, Secret, Appearance

“He thinks Goliath can end the war," Alek managed at last. "The man wants peace!"

"As do we all," Count Volger said. "But there are many ways to end a war. Some are more peaceful than others.”

Scott Westerfeld book Goliath

Source: Goliath

War, Peace, Thinking

“You're off to great places. Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting. So… get on your way.”

Dr. Seuss (1904–1991) American children's writer and illustrator, co-founder of Beginner Books

Oh, the Places You'll Go! (1990)
Source: Oh, The Places You'll Go!

Mountain, Waiting

“There was no way possible [the queen] could have done all of the things the pamphleteers claimed. The crimes were too gross, too immoral and far too physically challenging. Magnus himself had never attempted half of them.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Source: The Runaway Queen

“When I look into his eyes, I could see without a doubt that he loved me more than anyone else in the world, that I was his salvation, the same way that he was mine.”

Richelle Mead Shadow Kiss

Source: Shadow Kiss

Love, World

“The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only way that the mediocre and the vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. Loving makes love. Loving makes itself. We waste time looking for the perfect lover instead of creating the perfect love.”

Tom Robbins book Still Life with Woodpecker

Leigh-Cheri to Bernard, in Phase III, Ch. 46.
Still Life with Woodpecker (1980)
Context: I’m not quite twenty, but, thanks to you, I’ve learned something that many women these days never learn: Prince Charming really is a toad. And the Beautiful Princess has halitosis. The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only way that the mediocre and the vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. Loving makes love. Loving makes itself. We waste time looking for the perfect lover instead of creating the perfect love. Wouldn’t that be the way to make love stay?

Love, People, Making love, Lovers

“If you're too damn stubborn to let yourself cry, then your body finds other ways to let it out.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Narcissus in Chains

Source: Narcissus in Chains

Cry