Quote by Alexander McCall Smith

“She was thinking about the way she’d always taken for granted that the world had certain people in it, either central to her days…

— Emily St. John Mandel

“She found a deep sense of fitness in the fact that here, among people, they should be strangers; strangers and enemies. She thought, these…

— Ayn Rand

“All of reading is really only finding ways to name ourselves, and, perhaps, to name the others around us so that they will no…

— Anna Quindlen

“She was a rapidly rising anchor. She had what it took: great hair, a profound understanding of strategic lip gloss, the intelligence to understand…

— Douglas Adams

“...She looked at the people around her and felt not just that she was surrounded by strangers, but that she herself was strange, somehow,…

— Daphne Kalotay

“It was the comfort of knowing that she was not quite so strange, that there were other people who found delight in private challenges…

— Daphne Kalotay

“For a moment she rediscovered the purpose of her life. She was here on earth to grasp the meaning of its wild enchantment and…

— Boris Pasternak

“She wanted to understand the world, and she made a habit of chasing down information to its last hiding place, as though the fate…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“Her way with the chaos in her mind was to cultivate it through the articulations of others, by which she meant the reading of…

— Austin Wright

“I think as I often have that my mission is to layer her world with richness-not facts, but other hearts, desires, stories, a world…

— P. Carey Reid

“For the first time, her singularity, the fact that she felt different from every person she knew, made sense to her, and she realized…

— Marisa Silver

“it was somehow wonderful of her to be, in every detail, herself.”

— John Updike