Susan Allen Toth Quotes

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Perhaps I love England most for its paths. They lead across pastures and cultivated fields, over stiles and through gates, into valleys and over hills, along the banks of rivers and canals, beside lakes and ponds, atop mountain ridges and seaside cliffs, past moors, meadows, bogs, and dunes, and through every English garden.

Susan Allen Toth
When I enter a library, even a commonplace one, I still have a reassuring sense that it is going to tell me all I need to know.

Susan Allen Toth
I came to regard England as a giant conservatory without glass.

Susan Allen Toth
There it is: that wonderful library smell. How could I have forgotten it? The feel of libraries—the way they look, feel, smell sound—lingers intensely as the memories of a fierce first love.

Susan Allen Toth
'Boyfriends' weren't friends at all; they were prizes, escorts, symbols of achievement, fascinating strangers, the Other.

Susan Allen Toth
We subscribe to the thumbprint school of travel, which commits us to spending at least a week in one spot no larger than my thumbprint will cover on a standard folding road map.

Susan Allen Toth
In my own traveler's bill of rights, I'm putting in the undeniable right to have a lousy time.

Susan Allen Toth
Perhaps quiet places are rare because too few of us admit how much we need them. Noise seems to be the norm, and we are afraid to demand equal time for silence.

Susan Allen Toth
Those of us who travel tend to stretch the truth on occasion.

Susan Allen Toth
I wish we had more outposts, not of progress, but of silence.

Susan Allen Toth
When I was young, I saw middle age as a vast dull expanse, something like a big gray parking lot baking in the sun, filled with empty cars, deserted of life, but serving a useful purpose. I certainly didn't intend to end up parked there.

Susan Allen Toth
At my high-school reunion, I learned how to summarize my life.

Susan Allen Toth
I really fished mainly because I wanted to be alone on the middle of the lake.... Sometimes a fish jumped nearby, as though it knew it was safe.

Susan Allen Toth
Most travelers have time, money, and a sense of adventure not available to everyone.

Susan Allen Toth