First time Quote by Barbara Kingsolver

“She had always been this way: interested-quite unnecessarily, some would say-in the secrets of strangers. When flying, she always chose a window seat so…

— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

“Her good fortune, while not exactly making her shallow, had given her an insulated view from a window she didn’t care to move past.”

— Anne Frasier

“To unlock the heavy outer door and to walk into the hushed interior, with the morning light spilling from the high windows on to…

— Sue Townsend

“This was my modest dream come true: unambitious flight. The kind that never even got high enough for a view.”

— Lorrie Moore

“There were only three times in your life when it was proper to come through the front door, and you were carried every time.”

— Terry Pratchett

“She had preferred being on the plane, detached from the earth, the illusion of sitting still.”

— Jhumpa Lahiri

“I've since come to believe that the world is populated by multitudes of women sitting at windows, inseparable from their surroundings. I myself spent…

— Regina O'Melveny

“It turned out that when my younger self thought of taking wing, she wanted only to let her spirit soar. Books are the plane,…

— Anna Quindlen

“suddenly the window flew open, swung back and forth on its hinges, as if something was about to come in, and she waited in…

— Edna O'Brien

“While she was in transit, being unattached was exhilarating, but the moment she stopped, so did the high.”

— Whitney Otto

“though her gaze kept tracking nervously to the blue sky framed by the dome, expecting any minute steeply banking wings there, fire or smoke.…

— David G. Hartwell

“Flight usually intensifies the very thing one flees and establishes a special intimacy with it.”

— Thomas Moore