“There is a difference between arrival and entrance. Arrival is physical and happens all at once. The train pulls in, the plan touches down, you get out of the taxi with all your luggage. You can ar...”

“I love how the landscape gives the impression of vast space and intimacy at the same time: the thin brown line of a path wandering up an immense green mountainside, a plush hanging valley tucked be...”

“What I love is how seamless everything is. You walk throw a forest and come out in a village; and theres no difference, no division. You arent in nature one minute and in civilization the next. The...”

“This is my favorite part of the day. Good morning, Class Two C, I say. The entire class leaps up and sings out, Good morning, miss! Twenty-three faces are smiling at me. Sometimes they shout it wit...”

“Ive just been transferred to Kanglung, I say. They look at me to see if I am joking, and then they look at each other. There is a long, terrible silence and we all look at the floor. Karma Dorji wi...”

“There is a difference between arrival and entrance. Arrival is physical and happens all at once. The train pulls in, the plan touches down, you get out of the taxi with all your luggage. You can ar...”

“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...”