“Happiness. Simple as a glass of chocolate or tortuous as the heart. Bitter. Sweet. Alive.”

“I could do with a bit more excess. From now on I'm going to be immoderate--and volatile--I shall enjoy loud music and lurid poetry. I shall be rampant.”

“A black cat crossed my path, and I stopped to dance around it widdershins and to sing the ”

“The advantage of travel is that after a while you begin to realize that wherever you go, most people aren't really all that much different.”

“Sometimes survival is the worst alternative there is”

“The battle of good and evil reduced to a fat woman standing in front of a chocolate shop, saying, Will I? Wont I? in pitiful indecision.”

“He felt like home.”

“These people will try to manipulate you, try to bring you down but remember baby girl you are a queen, own your crown.”

“Your soul is so bohemian, free and gypsy wild. Come swim with me in the calming sea, let's be mermaids for awhile.”

“Move to a new country and you quickly see that visiting a place as a tourist, and actually moving there for good, are two very different things.”

“A five-hour flight works out to three days and nights on land, by rail, from sea to shining sea. You can chalk off the hours on the back of the seat ahead. But seventy-some hours will not seem so l...”

“The impoverished always try to keep moving, as if relocating might help.”

“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...”