#325: Leaf
‘In every change, in every falling leaf there is some pain, some beauty. And that’s the way new leaves grow.’ – Amit Ray
Category: The Other Livvy
#324: Prison
‘That’s all the freedom we can hope for – the freedom to choose our prison.’ – L.M. Montgomery, The Blue Castle
#323: Avenue des Champs-Élysées
‘He who contemplates the depths of Paris is seized with vertigo. Nothing is more fantastic. Nothing is more tragic. Nothing is more sublime.’ – Victor Hugo
#322: Père Lachaise cemetery
‘The cemetery is an open space among the ruins, covered in winter with violets and daisies. It might make one in love with death, to think that one should be buried in so sweet a place.’ – Percy Bysshe Shelley, Adonais
#321: Off season
‘Everything being a constant carnival, there is no carnival left.’ – Victor Hugo
#320: From the air
‘Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.’ – Leonardo da Vinci
#319: St Pancras International
‘I like trains. I like their rhythm, and I like the freedom of being suspended between two places, all anxieties of purpose taken care of: for this moment I know where I am going.’ – Anna Funder, Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
#318: Ripped
‘It seemed I was torn; I wanted my goodbye, and I didn’t. I wanted him to make me stay, and I wanted to go.’ – Sam Mariano, Because of You
#317: A dog’s opinion
‘If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.’ – Woodrow Wilson
#316: Armistice Day
‘They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning We will remember them.’ – Robert Laurence Binyon, For the Fallen