- "Slowly, very slowly, like two unhurried compass needles, the feet turned towards the right; north, north-east, east, south-east, south, south-south-west; then paused, and, after a few seconds, turned as unhurriedly back towards the left. South-south-west, south, south-east, east. . . ." Brave New World Aldous Huxley
- "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past." The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald
- "These pages will be our memory until she draws her last breath in my arms and I take her with me to the open sea, where the deep currents flow, to sink with her forever and escape at last to a place where neither heaven nor hell will ever be able to find us." The Angel's Game Carlos Ruiz Zafón
- "Soon afterward, like figures made of steam, father and son disappear into the crowd of the Ramblas, their steps lost forever in the shadow of the wind." The Shadow of the Wind Carlos Ruiz Zafón
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- "Nothing gold can stay." Robert Frost
- "A life you love." Charles Dickens
- Cellar Door
- Wanderlust
- "Not all those who wander are lost" J.R.R. Tolkien
- "and your very flesh shall be a great poem" Walt Whitman
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- "Howard Roark laughed." The Fountainhead Ayn Rand
- "I still remember the day my father took me to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books for the first time." The Shadow of the Wind Carlos Ruíz Zafón
- "A secret’s worth depends on the people from whom it must be kept”
- "The artist is the creator of beautiful things" The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde
- "It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife." Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen
- "I am an invisible man." Invisible Man Ralph Ellison
- "It was a pleasure to burn." Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury
- "In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit." The Hobbit J.R.R. Tolkien
- "When Mr Bilbo Baggins of Bag End announced that he would shortly be celebrating his eleventy-first birthday with a party of special magnificence, there was much talk and excitement in Hobbiton." The Fellowship of the Ring J.R.R. Tolkien
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- Wanderlust: A strong innate desire to roam or travel.
- Cellar Door (phonoaestheticly the most beautiful)
- Serendipity: An aptitude for making desirable discoveries by accident.
- Inimitability: Incapable of being imitated or copied; surpassing imitation; matchless.
- Halcyon: Happy, sunny, care-free.
- Greek Mythology: a mythical bird, usually identified with the kingfisher, said to breed about the time of the winter solstice in a nest floating on the sea, and to have the power of charming winds and waves into calmness.
- Also: a poetic name for the kingfisher.
- Ineffable: Incapable of being expressed or described in words; inexpressible
- Petrichor: The smell of earth after rain.
- Etymology: from Greek petros, meaning "st...
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