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Travel opens your mind as few other things do. It is its own form of hypnotism, and I am forever under its spell.”

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More quotes by Libba Bray

People always think they know other people, but they don’t. Not really.

Going Bovine (2009)

Balder holds up a completely blank rune. Wyrd. The beginning and the end. Fate.
I don't know what that means, but it's not doing anything to uncreep me.

Going Bovine (2009)

Here is our favorite equation: Us plus Them equals All of Us. It is very simple math. Try it sometime.

Going Bovine (2009)

The dark does not weep for itself because there is no light. Rather, it accepts that it is the dark. It is said that even the gods must die." He winks. "But not without one hell of a fight.”

Going Bovine (2009)

You’ve been assigned an identity since birth. Then you spend the rest of your life walking around in it to see if it really fits. You try on all these different selves and abandon just as many. But really it’s about dismantling all that false armor, getting down to what’s real.

Going Bovine (2009)

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In imitating the exemplary acts of a god or of a mythic hero, or simply by recounting their adventures, the man of an archaic society detaches himself from profane time and magically re-enters the Great Time, the sacred time.

Mircea Eliade Myths, Dreams and Mysteries (1967)

In your journey, be prepared to encounter an array of obstacles – some steep, some flat – for that's the nature of the path.

Sanu Sharma

Travellers like poets are mostly an angry race.

Richard Francis Burton

All journeys end in disappointment if for no other reason than that they end.

Lucius Shepard

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