‘You’ve got to admit that it’s difficult, he says, having a wife flying above you at 17,000 miles an hour. Never knowing where she is or where to find her.’ Orbit - Samantha Hardy
“No," she replies, emphatically. "It's just that over and over again I am really struck by how ordinary people get through their day. Sometimes it almost strikes me as a sort of miracle. The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. People don't have a lot to hope for in average lives and yet they make do, and on the whole they behave, they behave very well. That is pretty amazing." Anne Tyler
Michael Rosen poem that starts: “I sometimes fear that / people think that fascism arrives in fancy dress.”
danger - origin of the word was from the mid-13th-century Anglo-French word ‘daunger’, meaning arrogance or insolence.
Etymologically, hobo might come from "homeward-bound boys", American civil war soldiers trying to get home or to find odd jobs on which to build a new life after the fighting ceased.
‘Out through the window at a radiance doubling and redoubling. The earth, from here, is like heaven. It flows with colour. A burst of hopeful colour. When we're on that planet we look up and think heaven is elsewhere, but here is what the astronauts and cosmonauts sometimes think: maybe all of us born to it have already died and are in an afterlife. If we must go to an improbable, hard-to-believe-in place when we die, that glassy, distant orb with its beautiful lonely light shows could well be it.’ Orbital - Samantha Harvey
He spoke in a whisper, even in the desert.
"Two main rules if you're a travel writer and married,' explains another of Theroux's gone-to-seed grouches: "Number one, don't whistle while you pack... Number two, don't come back with a tan." Paul Theroux
Short cuts / Small acts / Clearing the air
