Diplomatic Baggage Quotes

“The ex-pat's life with all its homesickness and loneliness and privileges and perks, with its dizzy ups and miserable downs, was certainly not ordinary.”
― Brigid Keenan, Diplomatic Baggage: The Adventures of a Trailing Spouse

“In our experience, after three months we each become so used to being independent that no matter how much we have longed for each other in the meantime,being together again is really difficult – we find ourselves resenting our loss of freedom and the demands and interference of the other person. (Having to turn out the light before one o’clock in the morning, for instance.) Secondly,”
― Brigid Keenan, Diplomatic Baggage: Adventures of a Trailing Spouse