Travel Quote by Karen Thompson Walker Download Open image ““And as with any harsh journey, not everything survived.”” — Karen Thompson Walker ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Travel
“It was a rough crossing, the one from childhood to the next life. And as with any other harsh journey, not everything survived.” — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
“... and she was awed to see that vibrant life still struggled to thrive despite such destruction.” — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
“They had survived, when so many had not. And no one else could understand what it was like to bear it, unless they had… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
“He said that journeys involving the company of the dead were notorious for their difficulty but that in truth every journey was so accompanied.” — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“... oh boo hoo , everyone’s life was hard, and if you’d survived the hardship, why write about it? Survival itself was enough.” — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share Image
“My journey was never just about survival; it was about creating a future where no one has to endure the same suffering” — Hagir Elsheikh Copy Share Image
“We survived. You and I. And those who survive have a duty. Our duty is to do our best to keep on living. Even… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
End-of-the-world stories tend to ring true. I've always been drawn to them, but as I wrote my own, I found surprising pleasure in creating… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
“Months later, Michaela's mother would spread a star chart before us and explain to me that the slowing had shifted everyone's astrological signs. Fortunes… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
“Doesn't every previous era feel like fiction once it's gone?” — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
“I'd grown up hearing stories about the special hazards that girls faced. I knew where the bodies were found: naked on beaches or cut… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
“But I guess it never is what you worry over that comes to pass in the end. The real catastrophes are always different -… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
“Of all the strange phenomena that befell us that year, maybe nothing surprised me more than the sound of that small question rolling out… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
An editor is like a professional reader, and as I became a better reader, I also became a better writer. — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
“I could no longer remember the way my mother's eyes looked before the slowing. Had they always been so red around the edges? Surely,… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
“She left her keys in the teeth of the lock where they would dangle all day.” — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
I fell in love with Virginia Woolf in college. I especially admire how well she writes about daily life, how she captures so much… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Our fears are an amazing gift of the imagination ... a way of glimpsing what might be the future when there's still time to… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
Strange - is it not? That of the myriads who Before us passed the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us… — Horace Copy Share Image
“The only thing--I tell you this straight from the heart--that disgusts me in Salzburg is that one can't have any proper social intercourse with… — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Copy Share Image
In the nineteenth century some parts of the world were unexplored, but there was almost no restriction on travel.:; Up to 1914 you did… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I like to sit down, relax, have a cup of coffee on the terrace and read a book. I like to travel the world… — Marianne Vos Copy Share Image
Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors. — Henry James Copy Share Image
Often in my game as an actor, someone else pays for your travel and there's nothing like being able to lie flat on a… — Ioan Gruffudd Copy Share Image
When I travel abroad, because I'm Columbian, I'm always one that they check twice and security and I'm the one that they open my… — Sofia Vergara Copy Share Image
A place has almost the shyness of a person, with strangers; and its secret is not to be surprised by a too direct interrogation. — Arthur Symons Copy Share Image
I collect underwear from my travels. Lace, lingerie, bodysuits... they're like souvenirs. — Miranda Kerr Copy Share Image