Bryan

“What you have to consider,” he says, "is the possibility that God doesn’t like you. Could be, God hates us. This is not the worst thing that can happen.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“No family ever put an airport under its Christmas tree.”
― Thomas Swick, The Joys of Travel: And Stories That Illuminate Them

“But then there were other days, days when I would, quite unexpectedly, meet someone who saw the past not as a burden but as a forgotten story, now due to be retold; there were days when I would find an old house, or old church, or something unexpected like the cemetery in L’viv, which suddenly revealed the secret history of a place or a nation. That was part of what I was looking for: evidence that things of beauty had survived war, communism, and Russification; proof that difference and variety can outlast an imposed homogeneity; testimony, in fact, that people can survive any attempt to uproot them.”
― Anne Applebaum, Between East and West: Across the Borderlands of Europe

“After half a day in a place—especially a foreign country—you’ve learned more than from all the books and articles you’ve read.”
― Thomas Swick, The Joys of Travel: And Stories That Illuminate Them