Seth

“After all, one travels in order for things to happen and change; otherwise you might as well stay at home.”
― Nicolas Bouvier

“No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes, than a public library.”
― Samuel Johnson

“Here at the age of thirty-nine I began to be old. I felt stiff and weary in the evenings and reluctant to go out of camp; I developed proprietary claims to certain chairs and newspapers; I regularly drank three glasses of gin before dinner, never more or less, and went to bed immediately after the nine o’clock news. I was always awake and fretful an hour before reveille. Here my last love died.”
― Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

“Like many Peace Corps volunteers all over the world, I found that the parent visit was a kind of revelation: suddenly I saw how much I had learned and how much I had forgotten.”
― Peter Hessler, River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze