Boyd Shawl

“Of all the things I am not very good at, living in the real world is perhaps the most outstanding. I am constantly filled with wonder at the number of things that other people do without any evident difficulty that are pretty much beyond me.”
― Bill Bryson, I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After Twenty Years Away

“That is what we need more than anything. A sense of the law and the sense that there is someone to enforce it. Without that there is chaos.”
― Tim Butcher, Blood River: The Terrifying Journey through the World's Most Dangerous Country

“Every one sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are.”
― Machiavelli

“Make a lot of mistakes, and giggle a lot.”
― Jeanette Watts