another random quote

"There are two ways of looking at cities. The first is that of the tourist, the newly arrived foreigner who looks at the buildings, monuments, avenues and skylines from outside. There is also the inside view, the city of rooms in which we have slept of corridors and cinemas and old classrooms, the city made up of the smells and lights and colors of our most cherished memories. To those viewing them from outside, one city can seem much like the next, but a city’s collective memory is its soul and its ruins are its most eloquent testimony." Pamuk em Other Colors. no final da crónica diz: "The ruins that cause us such pain and open the road to forgetfulness become, in the end, the lots on which others can found new dreams."

o que não anda muito longe de:

“A viagem não acaba nunca. Só os viajantes acabam. E mesmo estes podem prolongar-se em memória, em lembrança, em narrativa. (...) O fim de uma viagem é apenas o começo de outra”
Saramago em Viagem a Portugal.

viagens, cidades, ruínas, memória, início. estou ansiosa por partir.