“There was that all-pervasive evening scent of cut grass and jasmine.” — William Dalrymple Copy Share Image
“And probably every object that we make room for in our life immediately structures that life—the important thing, don't you agree, is… — Daniël Robberechts Copy Share Image
“One has not the alternative of speaking of London as a whole, for the simple reason that there is no such thing… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“Scientists estimate that the Siberian permafrost holds the remains of 150 million mammoths—or about 8 million more than the 142 million Russians… — Ian Frazier Copy Share Image
“We would meet outside the same wine bar we had gone to on our first date, and from there we would wander… — Dinaw Mengestu Copy Share Image
“Every walk carves out a new city. And each of these tiny cities has its main square, a downtown area all its… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“On July 29, six days after I had arrived in Paris, Fin and I moved into the new lodgings on the top… — Rebecca Stott Copy Share Image
“I drove out of Dartmouth and after a while Start Bay emerged out of the brightening gloom like the end of a… — Scarlett Thomas Copy Share Image
“Paris is an ocean," a lawyer called Honoré said to me in a bar on the place Vendôme later that night. We… — Rebecca Stott Copy Share Image
“Our car is constantly in motion. It is raining in the streets we glide through, and this constitutes one more added pleasantness.… — Robert Walser Copy Share Image
“We are far from liking London well enough till we like its defects: the dense darkness of much of its winter, the… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“After a week's worth of failed fairy tales—stories that made my eyelids flutter open and not shut—my father tried telling me stories… — Monique Truong Copy Share Image
“Traffic's not too bad on Sheridan, and I'm cornering the car like it's the Indy 500, and we're listening to my favorite… — John Green Copy Share Image
“New York may end up being no more than a scrim, a spectral film that is none other than our craving for… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“There is an endless chain of cities, a circle without beginning or end, over which there breaks unrelentingly a shifting wave of… — Michal Ajvaz Copy Share Image
“Beyond this point on the river Cambridge became a kind of miniature Venice, its river water lapping up against the ancient stone… — Rebecca Stott Copy Share Image
“...most of the parade's attendees clung to a notion of what their town was, what values it embodied, what hopes it carved… — Stephen Markley Copy Share Image
