top of page
Quote_1.png
Tahir Shah

"There's nothing like a pack of mules to give one a sense of entourage."

Standard 
 Customized
"There's nothing like a pack of mules to give one a sense of entourage."

Exlpore more Companionship quotes

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"As we get older, it matters less where you are and more who you're with."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"She stopped and leant her elbows against the parapet of the embankment. He did likewise. There is at times a magic in identity of position, it is one of the things that have suggested to us eternal comradeship."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"Sometimes it's nice to have a man around the house. But a dog will clean the dishes."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"There is no enjoying the possession of anything valuable unless one has someone to share it with."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"I think ... I should go home soon. Mom and Luke are probably going nuts. What about you?"He shrugged, a casual lift of one shoulder. "You tell me. When I left Nevernever, I didn't have any plans other than being with you. If you want me around, just say the word."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"Andrea raised her hand. "This is the hand that slapped Aunt B."Maybe you should have it gold-plated."Here, you can touch it, since you're my best friend."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"The sweetness of dogs (fifteen) What do you say, Percy? I am thinkingof sitting out on the sand to watchthe moon rise. Full tonight.So we goand the moon rises, so beautiful it makes me shudder, makes me think abouttime and space, makes me takemeasure of myself: one iotapondering heaven. Thus we sit,I thinking how grateful I am for the moon's perfect beauty and also, oh! How richit is to love the world. Percy, meanwhile, leans against me and gazes up intomy face. As though I werehis perfect moon."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"I feel the need of relations and friendship of affection of friendly intercourse. ... I cannot miss these things without feeling as does any other intelligent man a void and a deep need."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"The clown's eyes sidled towards her, then drew away quickly. "But they kept me away from you earlier-and, on my word, you may laugh, but I was lonely for missing friendship."

Explore more quotes by Tahir Shah

Quote_1.png
Tahir Shah
"In moments of great uncertainty on my travels, I have always felt that something is protecting me, that I will come to no harm."
Quote_1.png
Tahir Shah
"My father never told us how the stories worked. He didn't reveal the layers, the nuggets of information, the fragments of truth and fantasy. He didn't need to -- because, given the right conditions, the stories activated, sowing themselves."
Quote_1.png
Tahir Shah
"Lured by the wilderness, and by the chance of spotting rare desert elephants, a few intrepid tourists make their way to the Skeleton Coast each year. It's just about as remote as any tourist destination on earth, but one that pays fabulous dividends."
Quote_1.png
Tahir Shah
"The very fact that a Frenchman was prepared, after tow minutes of conversation, to be so friendly towards anyone, especially one who had come from England, made me restless."
Quote_1.png
Tahir Shah
"I struggled to think pure thoughts, as Hector sucked out my psyche with his eyes."
Quote_1.png
Tahir Shah
"Visit Cape Town and history is never far from your grasp. It lingers in the air, a scent on the breezy, an explanation of circumstance that shaped the Rainbow People. Stroll around the old downtown and it's impossible not to be affected by the trials and tribulations of the struggle. But, in many ways, it is the sense of triumph in the face of such adversity that makes the experience all the more poignant."
Quote_1.png
Tahir Shah
"I had learned years ago never to give original documents to anyone if I could help it."
Quote_1.png
Tahir Shah
"I believe that Marrakech ought to be earned as a destination. The journey is the preparation for the experience. Reaching it too fast derides it, makes it a little less easy to understand."
Quote_1.png
Tahir Shah
"The ability to tell a good route from a terrible one is a valuable skill when leading an expedition. Unfortunately for us all, it was a skill I did not possess."
Quote_1.png
Tahir Shah
"The mere mention of the Farakka Express, which jerks its way eastward each day from Delhi to Calcutta, is enough to throw even a seasoned traveller into fits of apoplexy. At a desert encampment on Namibia's Skeleton Coast, a hard-bitten adventurer had downed a peg of local fire-water then told me the tale. Farakka was a ghost train, he said, haunted by ghouls, Thuggees, and thieves. Only a passenger with a death wish would go anywhere near it."
bottom of page