“Cualquiera que desee viajar puede encontrar el modo de hacerlo. Solo tiene que desplegar su creatividad.”

“Poner a prueba el destino y jugar con el no siempre tiene consecuencias evidentes e inmediatas, al final algo acaba saliendo mal.”

“Al final estaré tan solo como al principio.”

“Da igual si estaba escrito o no; no me corresponde a mí cambiarlo solo porque puedo.”

“I stood there and stared at it—this colorful expanse of paper, with its topographic mountain ranges and changeable shades of blue to depict the various depths of the ocean—and saw a map of the world, but knew it wasn’t mine. My world was much, much smaller”

“I, for one, am ready for a lot more adventure and a lot less nothing.”

“I don’t stay anywhere. I visit. I observe. I leave. I don’t ever stay.”I’m not sure what I’m supposed to do with this information. Tell him to leave? Tell him to stay? But I don’t have time to consider any other alternatives, because he scoots in closer and brings his hands to my face, and I fall back into the bookcase as he kisses me with this intensity—like he wants to be here, and if he kisses me just long enough, deeply enough, none of what he just said will actually be true.”