❝ The feeling of being stranded is, by far, the worst feeling in the world. You feel lost, and alone, and everything feels foreign... you feel helpless.

And the funny thing is, I always thought being stranded had to involve you, a strange place, and many hardships for you to find you way back home. But the truth is, I got stranded the second I lost my aunt. And I had to get lost in a foreign place (stranded in the actual sense of the word) for me to be able to find myself again. ❞

Elle's journal: The Europe Trip, last entry