CHERRY

“There might be lots of different ways of getting to the top of the mountain, but the mountain itself would stay exactly the same. And we must have been fairly alike to begin with, because each of us is a kind of mountain climber. There, at the top of that mountain, we might make a big pile of stones together. Then we might sit down and rest after the long climb. For once we might forget all our worries, large and small. We would have left them behind in the valleys.”
― Jostein Gaarder, Hello? Is Anybody There?

“Travelling brings you further out to the world. Dreaming draws you further inside it. But maybe we can't travel in more than one direction at once.”
― Jostein Gaarder, Hello? Is Anybody There?

“An answer is always the stretch of road that's behind you. Only a question can point the way forward.”
― Jostein Gaarder

“The terrace and the whole place, the lawn and the garden beyond it, all I could see of the park, were empty with a great emptiness.”
― Henry James, The Turn of the Screw