Best American Travel Writing 2017 Quotes

“What's important to remember about travel writing is that it's not just about where one goes, or who makes the trip, or how they travel, or why. It's also about when that journey takes place.

We may never walk this way again, and even if we do, we will never be the same people we are right now. Most important, the world we move through will never be the same place again. This is why travel writing matters.”
― Lauren Collins, Best American Travel Writing 2017

“But in the weeks and months after Chidi died, still engulfed in darkness, I felt ready to die too; by which I mean that losing the person I loved most in the world seemed equivalent to losing the world itself. In truth, like many who experience what is sometimes called catastrophic loss, I felt like the world had actually ended, but for some reason I was left behind, expected to do laundry and respond to emails within a reasonable time frame.”
― Lauren Collins, The Best American Travel Writing 2017