16 Quotes

“It is a pity indeed to travel and not get this essential sense of landscape values. You do not need a sixth sense for it. It is there if you just close your eyes and breathe softly through your nose; you will hear the whispered message, for all landscapes ask the same question in the same whisper. 'I am watching you -- are you watching yourself in me?' Most travelers hurry too much...the great thing is to try and travel with the eyes of the spirit wide open, and not to much factual information. To tune in, without reverence, idly -- but with real inward attention. It is to be had for the feeling...you can extract the essence of a place once you know how. If you just get as still as a needle, you'll be there.”
― Lawrence Durrell, Spirit of Place : Letters and Essays on Travel

“¿Para qué intentarlo si ya sabía que fracasaría?”
― Laura S. B., El juego de Claudia

“I shut down again. I went blank. One minute I was spinning, and the next minute my mind was dragging itself around in a circle, like an old arthritic dog trying to lie down. And then I just turned off and went to sleep, but not sleep in the way you do every night. Think a long, dark sleep where you don't dream at all.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“Time never waits for your answers like do you want to continue or not. It continues so be clever, one moment you will wake up in 16, then 26, then 45, then 67 and your whole life it will went like two hours film!”
― Deyth Banger

“1 day left, today 16 years old tomorrow 17 years old... Just one DAY!”
― Deyth Banger

“Sixteen years old is a crucial time in anybody's life, whether they realize it or not, and happy is the young person who has parents smart enough to plan character building activities and require respect and obedience.”
― Arnold Pent III, Ten P's in a Pod: The Million-Mile Journal of a Home School Family