I used to think the world was a vast place, some continents were so far away, they could as well have been different dimensions! But this is a whole other universe and there are more where it came from!

( if she sounds breathless, it's because she is - breathless from wonder. she used to think the dubois coffee plantations in abyssinia were another world, but this is further even than that. this is a melting pot of worlds!

imagine!

she leans on her elbows, resting her chin in the palm of her hand, looking over at him with slightly slouching shoulders and a dreamy expression. )

Someone should make a dictionary just over phrases common to people who aren't us.

( how she would like to illustrate such a book. )