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“Packing up. The nagging worry of departure. Lost keys, unwritten labels, tissue paper lying on the floor. I hate it all. Even now, when I have done so much of it, when I live, as the saying goes, in my boxes. Even to-day, when shutting drawers and flinging wide a hotel wardrobe, or the impersonal shelves of a furnished villa, is a methodical matter of routine, I am aware of sadness, of a sense of loss. Here, I say, we have lived, we have been happy. This has been ours, however brief the time. Though two nights only have been spent beneath a roof, yet we leave something of ourselves behind. Nothing material, not a hair-pin on a dressing-table, not an empty bottle of aspirin tablets, not a handkerchief beneath a pillow, but something indefinable, a moment of our lives, a thought, a mood.”
― Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca

“O Suburbs of Despair
where nothing but the weather ever changes!”
― Dana Gioia, Daily Horoscope: Poems

“Truth like beauty seems to be in the eye and mind of the beholder”
― Helene Munson

“The refugee's heart often grows
an outer layer. An assimilation.
It cocoons the organ. Those unable to grow the extra skin
die within the first six months in a host country.”
― Warsan Shire, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head

“She had sculpted the mist, the way those who have no choice do. She had willed a life for the two of us in a new land.”
― Padma Lakshmi, Love, Loss, and What We Ate: A Memoir

“Having a crazy neighbor is always a good reason to sell your home.”
― Steven Magee

“Pak Suleh recalled the atmosphere on his island of Pulau Sebidang, which had been ruled by his ancestors for more than a hundred years. Now it had been passed to foreign hands—whichever nation from whatever foreign world which had been claiming the island was theirs—such that he and his ancestors who had lived on that island for generation after generation had been chased away to live in these birdhouses. They had now inherited these congested breathing diseases.

Why was it that he could no longer enjoy the wind which blows from the sea, which is very much one of God’s incomparable benevolences? He could no longer savour the swaying coconut trees, ketapang trees, beringin trees and other trees which whistled and murmured when caressed by the winds as their dried leaves fell onto the sand, mixed with red and white flowers scattered all over the pristine white beach, resembling the moving clouds on a wide piece of white paper.

I have lost everything, thought Pak Suleh deep in his heart.”
― Suratman Markasan, Penghulu

“There is was: Travel . For a man like me, someone who made friends in fifth grade only to lose them in the sixth grade and, in another state, make new ones to lose in the seventh grade, I could no longer deny my addiction to relocation.”
― Jacob Tomsky, Heads in Beds: A Reckless Memoir of Hotels, Hustles, and So-Called Hospitality

“Human inertia induces us to believe that our lives will never change unless we relocate.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“Although relocating to a state he imagined he'd not even used in a sentence since grade school was not in his life plan, it had seemed like a glittering offer slid across a table off of which he couldn't afford to eat.”
― Mandy Ashcraft, Small Orange Fruit

“It is queer how quick new things do become Ordinary & then when you reflects on where you used to live it is that place which seems Exotic & Strange . . . /”
― Sara Tilley, Duke

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“The best thing that is of utmost importance you can do for yourself before moving to a new country is to learn the language and culture of the people. It reduces the burdens on your shoulder.”
― Olawale Daniel

“New start. New rules.”
― Steven Magee