Life Quote by Alexandra Monir

“What an illusion, she thinks, the idea of an ordered, ordinary life.”

— Dalia Sofer

“She entered the story knowing she would emerge from it feeling she had been immersed in the lives of others,”

— Michael Ondaatje

“Everyone whirled around her, entranced by the stories in which they recognized themselves, but in the stories they were also more than themselves and…

— Francesca Block

“She saw the world through a dazzling prism of authentic imagination.”

— Pat Conroy

“Her secret? Loving her own life. Finding the things that came her way of immense interest and animating them. No matter what was going…

— Karen Karbo

“The fact that her life was unremarkable made it no less real.”

— Scott Wilbanks

“I think that her life was about finding the extraordinary in every day. It was how she could sit in her garden on a…

— Karen White

“It was one thing to talk about being by yourself, doing important things, but quite another when the opportunity arose. The characters in the…

— Natalie Babbitt

“Most of all, she went out of her way to provide them with the kinds of experiences that would expand their understanding of what…

— Margot Lee Shetterly

“There was the presence only of essentials. It was an uncluttered kind of life, a simplicity deliberately constructed so that she could do her…

— Mason Currey

“But in exchange for what our imagination leads us to expect and we give ourselves so much futile trouble trying to find, life gives…

— Marcel Proust

“All her life she had believed in something more, in the mystery that shape-shifted at the edge of her senses.”

— Eowyn Ivey