"We talk to ourselves when we travel. We get used to the double-voiced loneliness that accompanies us..."

“We talk to ourselves when we travel. We get used to the double-voiced loneliness that accompanies us somewhere strange and, because we have already imagined it, familiar. We tell ourselves stories about places, and our stories are stories about us. We knead our dreams and our memories into the clay of new streets and new cities, and because they are a part of us we are never alone.”

- Tara Isabella Burton: Fatherlands - Guernica / A Magazine of Art & Politics (via guernicamag)