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“An important part of deciding where we want to go, as a society and culture, is knowing where we have come from, and indeed,…

— Sara Sheridan

“There’s something about arriving in new cities, wandering empty streets with no destination. I will never lose the love for the arriving, but I'm…

— Charlotte Eriksson

“Sometimes we have to leave home in order to find out what we left there, and why it matters so much.”

— Shauna Niequist

“Cities have the capability to at any moment shift out of the familiar, even if you've lived in one all your life.”

— Kate Milford

“Contrary to popular belief: Knowing where you are from will not really tell you where you are going. It will merely tell you why…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Sometimes you have to leave to discover that you left everything you needed back home.”

— Glennon Doyle Melton

“I consider myself fortunate to have spent most of my life away from city living.”

— Steven Magee

“... as long as you continue to travel, the nowhere that lies between the here of home and the there of somewhere else will…

— Paul Auster

“Really to see where you've come from, you have to go someplace else. Otherwise you wouldn't understand that the world didn't finish at the…

— Mick Jones

“All my life I had wanted to travel but what I discovered that year was that the things that you find out become the…

— Polly Horvath

“I was starting to get to know the city, and when that happens in a screwed-up place, it’s time to leave.”

— Nelson DeMille

“I talked about places, about the ways that we often talk about love of place, by which we mean our love for places, but…

— Rebecca Solnit