Quotes about the trip
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“Money has lost its narrative quality the way painting did once upon a time. Money is talking to itself.”

Source: Cosmopolis

“He simply felt that if he could carry away the vision of the spot of earth she walked on, and the way the sky and sea enclosed it, the rest of the world might seem less empty.”

Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence

Source: The Age of Innocence

World, Sea

“Isn't that the way of the world? We want the sweet things, but we need the unpleasant ones.”

Patrick Rothfuss book The Name of the Wind

Source: The Name of the Wind

World

“But if these years have taught me anything it is this: you can never run away. Not ever. The only way out is in.”

Junot Díaz book The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Source: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

“We're all one thing, like cells in a body. 'Cept we can't see the body. The way fish can't see the ocean. And so we envy each other. Hurt each other. Hate each other. How silly is that? A heart cell hating a lung cell.”

Charlie Kaufman (1958) American screenwriter

Source: Adaptation.: The Shooting Script

Hate, Fish, Heart, Envy

“Grandma said […] when you come on something that is good, first thing to do is share it with whoever you can find; that way, the good spreads out to where no telling it will go.”

Forrest Carter book The Education of Little Tree

Source: The Education of Little Tree

Grandma

“In a perverse way, I was glad for the stitches, glad it would show, that there would be scars. What was the point in just being hurt on the inside? It should bloody well show.”

Janet Fitch (1955) American writer

Heartbreaking, Hurt

“In the end, the world always wins. That's just the way of things.”

Khaled Hosseini book The Kite Runner

Original: (99) Rahim Khan
Variant: It was Homaira and me against the world.... In the end, the world always wins. That's just the way of things.
Source: The Kite Runner (2003)

World

“If they give you ruled paper, write the other way.”

Juan Ramón Jimenéz (1881–1958) Spanish poet

As quoted in the epigraph in Fahrenheit 451 (1953) by Ray Bradbury; Susie Salmon also uses this quote in The Lovely Bones, and Daniel Quinn published a book in 2007 with the title If They Give You Lined Paper, Write Sideways (2007)
Spanish: "Si os dan papel pautado, escribid por el otro lado" (If they give you lined paper, write on the other side)
"If they give you ruled paper, write the other way" is often attributed to William Carlos Williams who was contemporary with JRJ.
Misattributed

“I want to continue being crazy; living my life the way I dream it, and not the way the other people want it to be.”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

Source: Veronika Decides to Die

Life, People, Dreams

“I dipped into his brain. He wasn't happy that I wasn't wearing a bra, because my boobs distracted him. He was thinking I was a bit too curvy for his taste. He was thinking he'd better not think about me that way anymore. He was missing his wife.”

Charlaine Harris Dead and Gone

Source: Dead and Gone

Thinking, Happiness

“You need never be discouraged or afraid. The way through difficulties has always been prepared for you, and you will find it if you exercise faith.”

Henry B. Eyring (1933) American Mormon leader

Faith, Exercises

“I hate the way, once you start to know someone, care about them, their behavior can distress you, even when it's unreasonable and not your fault, even if you were really trying to be careful, tactful.”

Tanith Lee (1947–2015) British writer

Source: Wolf Star

Hate, Behavior

“Long-distance relationships are another way of avoiding intimacy.”

Danielle Steel book The Wedding

Source: The Wedding

“The way we live ought to manifest the truth of what we believe. A messy life speaks of a messy and incoherent faith.”

Elisabeth Elliot (1926–2015) American missionary

Source: Let Me be a Woman

Life, Truth, Faith

“Reading a good long novel is in many ways like having a long and satisfying affair”

Stephen King (1947) American author

Reading

“If you have a statue in the city centre you could go past it every day on your way to school and never even notice it, right. But as soon as someone puts a traffic cone on its head, you've made your own sculpture.”

Banksy pseudonymous England-based graffiti artist, political activist, and painter

School, Past

“I'm 38 and I'm single and I'm having my most intense and gratifying relationship with a dog. But we all learn about love in different ways, and this way happens to be mine.”

Caroline Knapp (1959–2002) American writer

Source: Pack of Two: The Intricate Bond Between People and Dogs

Love, Dogs, Learning

“People forgot; it was in the nature of people to forget, to blur boundaries, to retell stories to come out the way they wanted them to come out, to remember things as how they ought to be instead of how they were.”

Robin McKinley book Spindle's End

Source: Spindle's End

People, Nature, Forgetting

“So much of what I see reminds me of something I read in a book, when shouldn't it be the other way around?”

Nora Ephron (1941–2012) Film director, author screenwriter

Books, Reading

“I don't believe in pessimism. If something doesn't come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it's going to rain, it will.”

Clint Eastwood (1930) actor and director from the United States

Thinking

“Here I had a wonderful man who cared for me
and I was screwing around with a self-absorbed, conniving monster who'd betrayed me
in the worst possible way.”

Kelley Armstrong book Bitten

Source: Bitten

“In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me.”

John Fowles (1926–2005) British writer

“How do you know but ev’ry Bird that cuts the airy way,
Is an immense world of delight, clos’d by your senses five?”

William Blake (1757–1827) English Romantic poet and artist

World, Bird, Sense

“There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why? I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?”

Robert F. Kennedy (1925–1968) American politician and brother of John F. Kennedy

Though Kennedy stated that he was quoting George Bernard Shaw when he said this, he is often thought to have originated the expression, which actually paraphrases a line delivered by the Serpent in Shaw's play Back To Methuselah: “You see things; and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say, ‘Why not?’". This phrase was first used by his brother John F. Kennedy in 1963 (June 28th), during his visit to Ireland, in his address to the Irish Dail (Government): "George Bernard Shaw, speaking as an Irishman, summed up an approach to life, 'Other people, he said, see things and say why? But I dream things that never were and I say, why not?" ( Address on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ADeazX9blw.). Robert's other brother Edward famously quoted it (paraphrasing it even further), to conclude his eulogy to his late brother after his assassination (8 June 1968): Some men see things as they are and say why? I dream things that never were and say why not? - (Eulogy in CBS news video) http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=5268061n Misattributed Source: Robert Kennedy in His Own Words: The Unpublished Recollections of the Kennedy Years

Dreams

“God, he was probably too young to be this old, but life had a way of being about experience, rather than calendar days.”

Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist

Source: Lover at Last

Life, God

“Dispel, v.
It was the way you said, “I have something to tell you.” I could feel the magic drain from the room.”

David Levithan The Lover's Dictionary

Source: The Lover's Dictionary

Feeling

“Life is so uncertain: you never know what could happen. One way to deal with that is to keep your pajamas washed.”

Haruki Murakami book 1Q84

Source: 1Q84

Life

“NOW, MY BRETHREN!" Poseidon's voice was so loud I wasn't sure if I was hearing it from the smoke image or from all the way across town. "STRIKE FOR OLYMPUS!”

Rick Riordan book The Last Olympian

Source: The Last Olympian

“Who will see you through the darkness? "Me," I key in the answer. "I'll find my own way.”

Julie Anne Peters (1952) American writer

Source: By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead

“I try to find meaning anywhere I can. It's the only way I know how to validate my existence.”

Tiffanie DeBartolo (1970) American writer

Source: God-Shaped Hole

“Each of us literally chooses, by his way of attending to things, what sort of universe he shall appear to himself to inhabit.”

William James (1842–1910) American philosopher, psychologist, and pragmatist

Universe, Appearance

“He can occasionally see to an enemy," she conceded. "If he manages to get his sword pointed in the right direction and the enemy does him the favor of falling upon it in precisely the right way.”

Lynn Kurland (2000) American writer

Source: Star of the Morning

“You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.”

Annie Dillard (1945) American writer

Time

“Life is more or less a lie, but then again, that's exactly the way we want it to be.”

Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist

Life, Lie

“The second was some rather bad poetry, but it was short, and I forced my way through by gritting my teeth and occasionally closing one eye so as not to damage the entirety of my brain.”

Patrick Rothfuss book The Wise Man's Fear

Source: The Wise Man's Fear

“Incoming!" yelled Poseidon.
They shifted-as much as they could in the cramped space-and Rocky landed in their midst.
"This is not a baby," Hades noticed "I think it's a rock."
He was observant that way.”

Rick Riordan (1964) American writer

Source: Percy Jackson's Greek Gods

Thinking, Baby

“There is no truer gauge of a man's character than the way in which he employs his strength, his power.”

Jim Butcher book Storm Front

Source: Storm Front

Gauge

“You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don't live the only life you have, you won't live some other life, you won't live any life at all.”

James Baldwin (1924–1987) (1924-1987) writer from the United States

Life

“So how do you know him? (Shahara)
I knocked on his door one day and said, ‘Hi, I’m here to rob you. Hope you don’t mind. Oh, and by the way, will you be my friend?’ (Syn)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Born of Fire

Hope

“Memories have ways of becoming independent of the reality they evoke. They can soften us against those we were deeply hurt by or they can make us resent those we once accepted and loved unconditionally.”

Azar Nafisi book Reading Lolita in Tehran

Source: Reading Lolita in Tehran (2003)
Context: As I trace the route to his apartment, the twists and turns, and pass once more the old tree opposite his house, I am struck by a sudden thought: memories have ways of becoming independent of the reality they evoke. They can soften us against those we were deeply hurt by or they can make us resent those we once accepted and loved unconditionally.

Love, Reality, Memory, Hurt

“Our kinship with Earth must be maintained; otherwise, we will find ourselves trapped in the center of our own paved-over souls with no way out.”

Terry Tempest Williams (1955) American writer

Source: Finding Beauty in a Broken World

Soul

“When they finished laughing they were on their way to being not just friends, but the dearest of friends, the sort of friends whose lives are shaped by the friendship.”

Robin McKinley book Spindle's End

Source: Spindle's End

Friendship