Behinds Quote by China Mieville

She remembered was hope was, and this was it. That inner churning that moves you forward, plows you through life the way the boats…

— Elizabeth Strout

She followed slowly, taking a long time, As though there were some obstacles in the way; And yet: as though, once it was overcome,…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“Traveling, she realized, was like a slow dismemberment of the body. It plucked the heart out of her and split it into pieces, leaving…

— Rhian J. Martin

...the long train ride was like traveling through limbo. You weren't anywhere when you were on a train, she decided. You weren't where you…

— Katherine Paterson

Nothing could be slow enough, nothing lasts too long. No pleasure could equal, she thought, straightening the chairs, pushing in one book on the…

— Virginia Woolf

What? she said once to herself, and then once aloud, What? She felt a total displacement, like a spinning globe brought to a sudden…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Sometimes the journey is longer than we have anticipated, but in the end we realize it was worth the travel and the distance travelled…

— Anonymous

“I remembered looking up in the sky to see the contrail of a jet overhead. I thought how the harrowing journey that took Marie's…

— Mike Ericksen

“Her departure was a gradual thing, like a watercolor left in the sun, every day fainter until one day the canvas was bare and…

— Catherine McKenzie

“People were used to those slow human speeds on both land and sea, to those delays, those waitings on the wind or fair weather,…

— Marguerite Duras

She clutched the train ticket tighter and waited for the sense of escape to come over her as it had a dozen times before,…

— Connie Brockway

“The cold reality of it had struck her, as if, perched on the crest of a roller coaster, the rest of the ride was…

— Erica Bauermeister