"Why do you want to travel," she asked me.
"Because," I began, a faint smile tracing my lips, "I want to seek out all the quiet and hidden places in the world. I want to find the baroque pearls and invisible gems overlooked as 'pedestrian' and 'common,' the minuscule and infinitesimal beauty that exists everywhere that we fail to see, the beauty that exists inside fleeting moments, passing by never to return. That, to me, is the purpose of life."