Christopher

Christopher’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (676)
currently-reading‎ (0)
read‎ (828)
books-i-own‎ (351)
modern-fiction‎ (214)
childrens-books‎ (138)
classic-fiction‎ (105)
global-travel‎ (75)

general-memoir‎ (72)
booker-prize-winners-and-shortliste‎ (46)
middle-east-travel-memoir‎ (46)
india-fiction‎ (45)
general-history‎ (42)
india-travel-memoir‎ (38)
africa-travel-memoir‎ (26)
india-history-reference‎ (25)

middle-east-fiction‎ (18)
nepal-bhutan-travel-memoir‎ (18)
southeast-asia-travel-memoir‎ (18)
art-and-art-history‎ (16)
france-travel-memoir‎ (15)
pulitzer-prize-winners‎ (14)
tibet-travel-memoir‎ (14)
writing-reference‎ (12)

australia-fiction‎ (10)
middle-east-history‎ (9)
australia-nz-travel-memoir‎ (8)
nepal-fiction‎ (5)
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Christopher’s Quotes

“Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson's Essays

tags: beauty, travel

1242 likes

“The traveler has to knock at every alien door to come to his own, and one has to wander through all the outer worlds to reach the innermost shrine at the end.”
― Rabindranath Tagore

73 likes

“That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake

6461 likes

“The dead are never far from us. They're in our hearts and on our minds and in the end all that separates us from them is a single breath, one final puff of air.”
― William Kent Krueger, Ordinary Grace

296 likes

“We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.”
― Jawaharlal Nehru

tags: travel

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