Quotation from: The Valley of the Moon

Written by: Jack London

"That?" she queried.

He looked at her, perplexed in that he had not made his meaning
clear.

"Don't you ever feel that way?" he asked, bidding for sympathy
with his dream. "Don't you sometimes feel you'd die if you didn't
know what's beyond them hills an' what's beyond the other hills
behind them hills? An' the Golden Gate! There's the Pacific Ocean
beyond, and China, an' Japan, an' India, an' . . . an' all the
coral islands. You can go anywhere out through the Golden
Gate--to Australia, to Africa, to the seal islands, to the North
Pole, to Cape Horn. Why, all them places are just waitin' for me
to come an' see 'em. I've lived in Oakland all my life, but I'm
not going to live in Oakland the rest of my life, not by a long
shot. I'm goin' to get away . . . away. . . ."