"The Towers of Trebizond" Quotes
The Towers of Trebizond follows an unconventional journey across Turkey as a witty Englishwoman grapples with faith, love, and cultural contrasts.
fiction | 296 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
The price of self-destiny is never cheap, and in certain situations it is unthinkable. But to achieve the marvelous, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
The most dangerous of all falsehoods is a slightly distorted truth.
A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
Expeditions are escapism. The itch to explore has surrendered to the ease of satiety and the pampered languor engendered by the age of comfort.
If you want to get away from a crowd, you must go out of the crowd.
Travel is the art form available to Everyman.
The only way to escape the personal corruption of praise is to go on working.
One can give nothing whatever without giving oneself.
It is a curious thing...that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolute and eternal, but when we have paradise no one will be able to enter it.
The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears, or the sea.
