“She was an experimental child but compassionate with it.”

“It was an undemanding job both physically and mentally, which was fine. Stress was for the rich and hard-working.”

“Her voice had suddenly jumped a couple of social classes to underline her ownership status.”

“As with all travel, replacing familiar surroundings with the unknown fires an electric charge that awakens a sense of adventure.”

“I had intended to visit the haunting ground of my school days. Subconsciously I wanted to be in a place where anxiety, responsibility and financial burden had yet to surface.”

“If I really wanted to say or ask anything important (to her imposing father) I could not trust my tongue to get it right.”

“We all have an unscientific weakness for being always in the right, and this weakness seems to be particularly common among professional and amateur politicians. But the only way to apply something...”

“How can we ever understand what we are and where we belong in the universe if we haven't experienced anything outside of our own nation, culture, or history?”

“I do not know where to go, but I have been on the road.”

“While she was in transit, being unattached was exhilarating, but the moment she stopped, so did the high.”

“The natural tenderness and delicacy of our constitution, added to the many dangers we are subject to from your sex, renders it almost impossible for a single lady to travel without injury to her ch...”