I first travelled to Africa at the end of 1996 and was immediately captivated. I had planned on a three-week trip, and I ended up staying two months.

...[She] felt as if she were both a stranger to herself and more herself than she'd ever been.

When a person you love moves by you with flat eyes that will not see you, it is a shock to believe it.

I first travelled to Africa at the end of 1996 and was immediately captivated. I had planned on a three-week trip, and I ended up staying two months.

I would have fallen in love with you anywhere.

Between children and parents there is a difficulty of seeing each other simply as people.

She thought of how much people changed you. It was the opposite of what you always heard, that no one could change a person. It wasn't true. It was only through other people that one ever did change.