Loneliness is an integral part of travelling. I used to think it was the downside to travelling, but now I realise it is a necessary educative part of it to be embraced.

A life can get knocked into a new orbit by a car crash, a lottery win or just a bleary-eyed consultant giving bad news in a calm voice.

We looked at each other for the last time; nothing is as eloquent as nothing.

If I want to act relaxed, it's going to take all my cunning, skill, and concentration.

She has to lose her pre-Copernican view of a universe revolving around herself.

Once any tyranny becomes accepted as ordinary, its victory is assured.

Women, O, women! They'll find the baddest meanin' in your words & hold it up.