"I am fascinated by language in daily life: the way it can evoke an emotion, a visual image, a complex idea, or a simple truth."

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Travel broadens, they say. My personal experience has been that, in the short term at any rate, it merely flattens, aiming its steam-roller of deadlines and details straight at one's daily life, leaving a person flat and gasping at its passage.

— Laurie R. King