Alyson

“The mind I love must have wild places.”
― Katherine Mansfield

“We're all entitled to our different likes and dislikes. Imagine the world if we all liked the same things.”
― Malia Ann Haberman, Chase Tinker and the House of Magic (Chase Tinker, #1)'

“One thing you who had secure or happy childhoods should understand about those of us who did not. We who control our feelings, who avoid conflicts at all costs, or seem to seek them. Who are hypersensitive, self-critical, compulsive, workaholic, and above all survivors. We are not that way from perversity, and we cannot just relax and let it go. We’ve learned to cope in ways you never had to.”
― Piers Anthony

“Most travel, and certainly the rewarding kind, involves depending on the kindness of strangers, putting yourself into the hands of people you don't know and trusting them with your life.”
― Paul Theroux, Ghost Train to the Eastern Star