by elizabeth gilbert. i really enjoyed this book, not only because of her language, or because it was a fairly easy read, but because it helped corroborate my longing to leave and see the world on my own, and that it is truly possible to do so.
although there were many, this one particular excerpt really stood out to me:
"I look at the Augusteum, and I think that perhaps my life has not actually been so chaotic, after all. It is merely this world that is chaotic, bringing changes to us all that nobody could have anticipated. The Augusteum warns me not to get attached to any obsolete ideas about who I am, what I represent, whom I belong to, or what function I may once have intended to serve. Yesterday I might have been a glorious monument to somebody, true enough--but tomorrow I could be a fireworks depository. Even in the Eternal City, says the silent Augusteum, one must always be prepared for riotous and endless waves of transformation."
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