Lesley

“He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“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

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

“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