Julie Haigh

“After a lifetime of soft, easy living in the West, one's buttocks take an awful hammering out here. Backpacking around India is just one long round of sitting on bone-hard, chafing, bruising and generally uncomfortable seats-whether in buses our trains, or restaurants or cinemas. There is no such thing as a padded seat in the whole country.”
― Frank Kusy, Kevin and I in India

“My meal arrived. It was a bowl of tepid, green curried water with two spinach leaves floating in it. The waiter called it 'vegetable soup'. I called it inedible slop.”
― Frank Kusy, Kevin and I in India

“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“I stood in the library admiring the huge book collection. There was something inherently calming about being surrounded by books, even their smell and texture was comforting.”
― Saffron Mello Castro, A Thousand Miles from Nowhere: A Hippy Trip of Discovery