East of Croydon Quotes

“Your heart keeps its own clock. It doesn’t care for hours and minutes; the fake lines of measurement, which the outside life uses to calculate success, age or achievement.”
― Sue Perkins, East of Croydon: Travels through India and South East Asia

“However fruitless it may appear, there is a point to everything if you are sufficiently invested in the moment.”
― Sue Perkins, East of Croydon: Travels through India and South East Asia

“But I felt sad for us, for our 'developed' world that keeps on developing and developing and doesn't know when to stop, that cannot help but expand without end. A world defined by acquisition and insatiable need, where our houses are filled with baubles, and where we pay for our out-of-town storage outlets to contain the overspill of our excess possessions. But where, in our endless plans for expansion, do we consider or pursue the intangible? Happiness? Community? Mutual respect? Can we ever reclaim a time when we weren't fearful and insular?”
― Sue Perkins , East of Croydon: Travels through India and South East Asia