"Here’s to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy."
— Charlaine Harris

"No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one."
— Elbert Hubbard

"When all else fails, take a vacation."
— Betty Williams

"Eighth grade's a distant rumor, a tabled issue, and Dylan knows from experience that the summer between might change anything, everything. He and Mingus Rude too and even Arthur Lomb for that matter are released from the paint-by-numbers page of their schooldays, from their preformatted roles as truant or victim, freed to an unspoiled summer, that inviting medium for doodling in self-transformation. "
— Jonathan Lethem (The Fortress of Solitude)

""I don't want to go to Peru."
"How do you know? You've never been there."
"I've never been to hell either and I'm pretty sure I don't want to go there."
— Richard Paul Evans (The Sunflower: A Novel)