from Sand & Glass

"Where you come from is gone, 

where you thought you were going to was never there, 

and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it."

-Flannery O'Connor

"Strength will find you sooner than you ever thought it would."

"If you don't travel, how will you know where you truly belong?"

"You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star."
-Friedrich Nietzsche

"But never have I been a blue calm sea / I have always been a storm"
-Fleetwood Mac

"And if you're still up at 4 am, you are in love or lonely, and I don't know which one is worse."

"We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known."

-Carson McCullers 

"Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book."

-John Green