History devours, but at times it resurrects. Some lives must wait for history to catch up.

I usually don't throw around the word 'fabulous,' but how else to describe buildings decorated with mirrored water dragons, serpents tiled in colored glass, and hundreds - no, thousands, no, tens of thousands - of gold-leaf Buddhas? Luang Prabang has more than 47,000 residents, but its Buddha population must be ten times that.

Sometimes when I travel, I like to close my eyes and imagine visiting during another era.

David Ebershoff Quotes