Lori

“You can't fit in with people by pretending to be just like they are; you fit in by engaging in a dialogue about your differences, and by putting aside the assumption that your way of life is in any way preferable to theirs.”
― Andrew Solomon, Far & Away: Reporting from the Brink of Change: Seven Continents, Twenty-Five Years

“[P]laces that seem lovely at first glance may actually be sinister, but places that feel sinister seldom turn out to be lovely.”
― Andrew Solomon, Far & Away: Reporting from the Brink of Change: Seven Continents, Twenty-Five Years

“The proverbial hospitality of the South may be selectively extended but it is not a myth.”
― Sally Mann, Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs

“You cannot understand the otherness of places you have not encountered. If all young adults were required to spend two weeks in a foreign country, two-thirds of the world's diplomatic problems could be solved. It wouldn't matter what country they visited or what they did during their stays.”
― Andrew Solomon, Far & Away: Reporting from the Brink of Change: Seven Continents, Twenty-Five Years