18 Quotes by Rachel Friedman

It's not going to stop here. This can be done anywhere.

They have seven months to listen to us, to the voters, and to do the right thing. The people have spoken. This is what democracy looks like.

It’s exciting to fit somewhere when I have felt out of place everywhere for so long.

More and more, quicker and quicker, the places I travel draw me in like a spell. I.

The geographies of our childhoods don’t quite suit either of us, something we have in common.

Maybe this is what travel gives you – or gives you back, in most cases – that childlike sense of wonder, and with it a kidstyle openness where you want to finger-paint with anyone and everyone who shows.

Even the homes we leave on purpose, the families we break away from to be ourselves or someone else, call us back again and again, to a place that has long since ceased to be home yet still holds power over us.

Before, some places just seemed too far, too difficult to reach, but once you start traveling, you never want to stop. You want to hear other people’s stories, see where they live, eat their food. You realize – and of course it’s a cliche, but like many cliches, it’s true – the way we are all interconnected.

I’ve found it freeing these last few months to let go of some insecurities, large and small, or at least to put them on hold. One.