Broken hearts Quote by Alex Garland

“On that trip I learnt something very important. Escape through travel works. Almost from the moment I boarded my flight, life in England became…

— Alex Garland

Escape through travel works. Almost from the moment I boarded my flight, life in England became meaningless. Seat-belt signs lit up, problems switched off.…

— Alex Garland

“I was growing stale in London. I was tired of doing much the same thing everyday. My friends pursued their course with uneventfulness; they…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“But those were the times when frustration with social ills boiled over, and escaping to another country was a fantasy everyone entertained at least…

— Park Wansuh

“We drove out of London, heading north through the East Midlands and across Yorkshire to Lancashire. I sat in the back with Monro wedged…

— Andrew Michael Hurley

I left England when I was 19 for two years travelling on my own and since then I've always had an urge to go abroad.

— Rick Stein

“The sad engineer would never go back to England; he would become one of these elderly expatriates who hide out in remote countries, with…

— Paul Theroux

“Those unexpected morality lessons provided by the trip had jolted me into some kind of action. It was time to jettison the past before…

— Craig Ferguson

“You’re coming to England no matter what, even without your mom’s permission. I’ll buy you the plane ticket myself.”

— Michelle Madow

“England has a peculiar way of making foreigners feel exhilaratingly free and depressingly alone.”

— Elif Shafak