...the place was one of those nowhere villages that existed only in order to avoid the embarrassment of having large empty places on the map. (MR)
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They landed. It's a short sentence, but contained a lot of incident. (LH)
Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colours. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving. (HFS)
... Mrs Arcanum considered foreign parts only marginally less unspeakable than private parts... (TT)
… she was definitely feeling several twinkles short of a glitter and suffering a slight homesick-tinged dip in her usual sunny nature. People didn’t hit you over the head with farmhouses back home. (WA)
Not for the first time in the history of the universe, someone for whom communication normally came as effortlessly as a dream was struck for inspiration when faced with a few lines on the back of a card. (WA)
It was the special sort of beautiful area which is only beautiful if you can leave after briefly admiring its beauty and go somewhere else where there are hot tubs and cold drinks. Actually staying there for any length of time is a penance. (MP)
The Luggage had a straightforward way of dealing with things between it and its intended destination: it ignored them. (E)
Like pillion passengers since the dawn of time, he persisted in leaning the wrong way. (ER)
‘… all this travelling and seeing things is fine but there’s also a lot of fun to be had in having been. You know, sticking all your pictures in a book and remembering things.’ (LF)
'You should always leave enough time for goodbye.' (LW)
He knew about other languages, but as a decent Londoner he vaguely disapproved of them, knowing full well that anyone who wasn’t English was obviously an enemy sooner or later. (Do)
‘How went your holidays, apart from lawless actions, ad hoc activities, fights, chases on both land and sea and indeed fresh water, unauthorized expenditure and, of course, farting in the halls of the mighty?’ (Sn)
'Oh, back in the olden days up in the Uberwald or somewhere they used to tear people to bits and eat them.'
'That's foreigners for you,' said the woman. (UA) She thought that being foreign was a crime, or at least some sort of illness that you could catch by being out out in the sun too much, or eating olives. (N)
On nights such as this, witches are abroad.
Well, not actually abroad. They don’t like the food and you can’t trust the water and the shamans always hog the deckchairs. (WS) 'New York, New York.’
‘Why did they name it twice?’ ‘Well, they ARE Americans. I suppose they wanted to be sure.' (JD) 'I believe it’s very hard to have fun in Iceland without fish being involved in some way.' (JD)
'It’s not the travelling,’ said Black. ‘It’s the arriving that matters.' (GO)
As a form of transport, the goose leaves a lot to be desired. (Wings)
This is a bit of the continent, sticking out into the warmer sea to the south-east. Most of its inhabitants call it Florida.
Actually, they don’t. Most of its inhabitants don’t call it anything. They don’t even know it exists. Most of them have six legs, and buzz. A lot of them have eight legs and spend a lot of time in webs waiting for six-legged inhabitants to arrive for lunch. Many of the rest have four legs, and bark or moo or even lie in swamps pretending to be logs. In fact, only a tiny proportion of the inhabitants of Florida have two legs, and even most of them don't call it Florida. They just go tweet, and fly around a lot. (Wings) Many humans spend a lot of time travelling from place to place, which is odd because there are usually too many humans at the place they’re going to anyway. (Wings)
AIRPORTS: A place where people hurry up and wait. (Wings)
Animals loose in a car are never a good idea. Goats are generally the worst, but until you realise there’s a tortoise stuck under your brake pedal you’ve never known the meaning of fear, and possibly not the meaning of ‘old age’ either. (UC)
Every world is full of places like Twoshirts. They are places to come from, not go to. (HFS)
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