Roadtrip Quotes

“It’s not about the destination. It’s getting there that’s the good part.
- Leonard”
― Morgan Matson, Amy & Roger's Epic Detour

“Funny, how it took a little bit of pain to remember that certain parts of yourself were alive.”
― Adi Alsaid, Let's Get Lost

“Take care of your car in the garage, and the car will take care of you on the road.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“I am emotional about engines, if you hurt my car, you hurt my heart.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“Asking someone else to drive your sports car is like asking someone else to kiss your girlfriend.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“Among all the machines, motorcar is my favorite machine.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“You have always adored driving great distances across your country; it is the only time you ever feel any kind of patriotism.”
― Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House

“I am so obsessed with the cars that sometimes I feel like my heart is not a muscle, it's an engine.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“Alone in the car with my social life all before and behind me, I was suspended in the beautiful solitude of the open road, in a kind of introspection that only outdoor space generates, for inside and outside are more intertwined than the usual distinctions allow. The emotion stirred by the landscape is piercing, a joy close to pain when the blue is deepest on the horizon or the clouds are doing those spectacular fleeting things so much easier to recall than to describe.”
― Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust: A History of Walking

“BELIEVE so DEEPLY that you no longer question that it is possible”
― Lugene Hessler Hammond, His Road Trip: An Aspiring Adventure Across America

“I expected it would be exciting;  I expected that the freedom from routine was somehow greater than the freedom to determine your own routine. I wanted to get up in the morning and not know exactly what I was going to do that day. But now that I don't, it's terrifying.”
― Sara Baume, Spill Simmer Falter Wither

“I’m a spiritual mutt. The road is my church. It was on the road that I discovered the landscape god. My journals tell of the perpetual midnight mass held on the highways and byways of the American West. Every so often, climbing out of the driver’s seat with a journal and a camera, seeking the sacrament of the wild silence found in the unsullied sanctuaries of intact wilderness.”
― L.M. Browning, Drive Through the Night

“I read aloud from my phone. “‘A cappuccino with low-quality milk … the only good things is the kindness of the bartenders…’”

“Are you reading the online reviews?”

“Of course. This is a good one. ‘What is gruesome is the disorganization and rudeness of the staff.’ And here’s another. ‘Business lunch with pork sandwich, dirty toilets, and hallucinating prices.’”

Elisa let out a laugh. “Internet translations have made Italians sound like lunatics.”

“Or like a nation with a head injury. Here’s my favorite one: ‘The collation leaves it to be desired and the girl was alone and in trouble to manage everything. Sandwich was inexplicable.”
― Dominic Smith, Return to Valetto

“when you stop caring about how hard something is, its gets a lot easier”
― Aaron Lauritsen

“The landscape started hard, sharp black mountains over my shoulder and thirsty young saguaros hugging patchy dirt. Gradually it let go, began to green on me a little. I crossed a river, watched succulents get fatter and farmland start to wave, hoarding the blue above and the few clouds it had to spare.

I knew the route somehow, knew the curves, the directions, the exact way to go. I knew it the way you know the stars are still up in the sky even though white sun obscures them. Everything that had happened before Lukeville and Sonoita began to liquify in memory, feeling more like fiction than personal history. Funerals and pain, girlfriends and mothers, roommates and priests all tumble away with the desert behind me. The only thing that's real is the road I see ahead. The only person in my life is the man sitting silently beside me. The place I'm going is the only place I've ever wanted to go.”
― Laurie Perez, Torpor: Though the Heart Is Warm

“How long do you think it will take us to cross?” Jefferson asks.

“According to the Major, about three and a half days,” I say, looking at the sky. “It’s Monday afternoon. Maybe we’ll be across by Thursday at sunrise.”

He whistles. “I was happier before I knew that.”

“Think of it this way: Once we cross, we’re in California. Give or take a mountain range or two.”

Therese says, “Then we’re practically almost there.”
― rae carson

“I love the wheels, I mean steering wheel.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“#NoRegrets”
― Lugene Hammond, His Road Trip 3

“Old age is a Gift”
― Lugene Hammond, His Road Trip: An Aspiring Adventure Across America

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― Lugene Hessler Hammond, His Road Trip: An Aspiring Adventure Across America

“Find Your Happy Place”
― Lugene Hessler Hammond, His Road Trip: An Aspiring Adventure Across America

“My friends don't ask me anymore "How are you" they ask "Where are you”
― Lugene Hessler Hammond

“Penny is still looking at her phone. “How was I to know that all these middle states are each the size of France? I’ve never even heard of Nebraska.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Wayward Son

“Survival is balance. Life’s ugliness is balanced by beauty. Trauma is balanced by awe. For me, being on the road has come to represent awe-seeking—what I find in the still-wild places is counterbalance to the traumas.”
― L.M. Browning, Drive Through the Night

“For a moment let it be.
For a moment love it as-is.
For a moment hold it
then leave it along the roadside.”
― L.M. Browning, Drive Through the Night

“There are times
when all I can take in
lies between my headlights.”
― L.M. Browning, Drive Through the Night

“Every woman alive is given one man who is guaranteed to turn her life into a monument of suck. My one man is Nick O’Shea. Every time he shows up my life gets shaken upside down and spanked.”
― Sarah Ready, Chasing Romeo

“A promise is a promise. Five words. After ten years. There’s so much more that needs to be said beyond those seven syllables. But I took one look at her face, and the rest seemed unimportant.”
― Bridget Morrissey, A Thousand Miles

“5. Thou must set the scene with tunes.
Road trips aren't the only time a decent playlist is required.
How we consume music has changed radically over the years.
Dinner at my grandparents' house was set to silence, at my parents' the radio, and at my friends' something much more personal: a playlist put together for the occasion with songs that are meaningful to us.
Supper is on hold until the right music starts to play, even if it means holding a knife and fork and slavering over the smell of dinner until the person in charge of the tunes has done their job.”
― Gabriella Bennett, The Art of Coorie: How to Live Happy the Scottish Way

“A road's just an opinion about which way to go.”
― Rudy Rucker, Million Mile Road Trip