Falling Off the Map Quotes

“Finding a sanctuary, a place apart from time, is not so different from finding a faith.”
― Pico Iyer, Falling Off the Map: Some Lonely Places of the World

“... epiphanies rarely repeat themselves.”
― Pico Iyer, Falling Off the Map: Some Lonely Places of the World

“So it is that Lonely Places attract as many lonely people as they produce, and the loneliness we see in them is partly in ourselves.”
― Pico Iyer, Falling Off the Map: Some Lonely Places of the World

“Everyone is a Wordsworth in certain moods, and every traveler seeks out places that every traveler has missed.”
― Pico Iyer, Falling Off the Map: Some Lonely Places of the World

“Lonely Places, then are the places that are not on international wavelengths, do not know how to carry themselves, are lost when it comes to visitors. They are shy, defensive, curious places; places that do not know how they are supposed to behave.”
― Pico Iyer, Falling Off the Map: Some Lonely Places of the World

“She liked it? 'I love it--the way you'd love an orphan, or a bird with a broken foot.”
― Pico Iyer, Falling Off the Map: Some Lonely Places of the World

“You wind back the clock several decades when you visit a Lonely Place; and when you touch down, you half expect a cabin attendant to announce, "We have now landed in Lonely Place's Down-at-Heels Airport, where the local time is 1943 and the temperature is...frozen.”
― Pico Iyer, Falling Off the Map: Some Lonely Places of the World

“It's kind of spooky sometimes,' a Canadian lawyer said to me one day. 'There you are, in the Kim Do Hotel, it's ninety-three degrees outside, and it's April eighth, and you're listening to a Vietnamese cover version of Jingle Bells.”
― Pico Iyer, Falling Off the Map: Some Lonely Places of the World

“Families are so important here," I said. She looked surprised. "They are not everywhere?”
― Pico Iyer, Falling Off the Map: Some Lonely Places of the World

“Everywhere, in some lights, is a Lonely Place, just as everyone, at moments, is a solitary. Everyone sometimes dances madly when alone, or thumbs through secrets in a drawer. Everyone, at some times, is a continent of one.”
― Pico Iyer, Falling Off the Map: Some Lonely Places of the World