Lesley

“I had already found that it was not good to be alone, and so made companionship with what there was around me, sometimes with the universe and sometimes with my own insignificant self; but my books were always my friends, let fail all else.”
― Joshua Slocum, Sailing Alone around the World

“It is true that those we meet can change us, sometimes so profoundly that we are not the same afterwards, even unto our names.”
― Yann Martel, Life of Pi

“Do you believe in fairies?...If you believe, clap your hands!”
― J.M. Barrie

“I've been homesick for countries I've never been, and longed to be where I couldn't be.”
― John Cheever