Himalayas Quote by Anita Desai

“Many find it difficult to breathe without the atmosphere but we knew how. We just stopped breathing.”

— Joseph Fink

“Whenever he was asked what somebody had died of he'd reply (with immense gravity), "Lack of breath.”

— Aminatta Forna

“Nothing lives long but the mountains and the earth. All the rest is air.”

— Chris Galford

“Very slowly, he turned a full circle, taking in the nothingness of it all. It seemed his lungs could never be large enough to…

— M.L. Stedman

“He was breathing the air of its world, adapting to its gravity. The story’s essence had permeated every part of him, to the walls…

— Haruki Murakami

“When I raised my head and took my next breath, the air smelled like life. There were pieces of me the wind would keep,…

— Ed Abell

“He was up to his neck in it. He was breathing the air of its world, adapting to its gravity. The story's essence had…

— Haruki Murakami

“Finally, the water level topped off, leaving him with no more air to breathe. He drew his last breath and slipped down deep into…

— Wyatt Michael

“How shall I tell ye what it is, to feel the need of a place?" he said softly. "The need of snow beneath my…

— Diana Gabaldon

“She couldn’t move, couldn’t breathe, with the sense of his gaze reaching in, taking ahold of the shaking inside. He’d always had that power—the…

— Susan May Warren

“What he carried with him, all he carried with him, was a lack, something like a lack of air, of proper behavior in his…

— Alice Munro

“He took a deep breath, as if he were taking the air from my own lungs and swallowing it for himself.”

— Alyson Richman