“Free will, as C.S. Lewis said, 'is the modus operandi of destiny'. Fate, too, chooses one's fellow hotel guests. I cursed mine inaudibly.” DestinyFree WillCs LewisFellow Hotel Guests Book:Travels with a Tangerine: A Journey in the Footnotes of Ibn Battutah Source: Travels with a Tangerine: A Journey in the Footnotes of Ibn Battutah
“Knowing now that to travel hopelessly was the only way to arrive, I made myself at home in the bus shelter and contemplated the long wait ahead. As a result, a series of lifts -- Keralan, Goan, Pakistani, Omani -- took me down the coast with wondrous rapidity.” TravelHopelessly Book:Travels with a Tangerine: A Journey in the Footnotes of Ibn Battutah Source: Travels with a Tangerine: A Journey in the Footnotes of Ibn Battutah
“Sati was a custom religiously followed by a few, toed halfheartedly by rather more, sidestepped by many and ignored by most” Sati Author:Tim Mackintosh-Smith