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“Mohammed? Are you kidding? He was dreamed up by the Mecca Chamber of Commerce.”

— William S. Burroughs

He used to say we all had a compass inside of us and what we needed to do was to find it and to…

— Ann Patchett

“I identify it (i.e., Kadesh Barnea) with Mecca.”

— Immanuel Velikovsky

“Har Haji yek jour Makeh miravad—Every pilgrim goes to Mecca his own way.”

— Dalia Sofer

As he was about to climb yet another dune, his heart whispered, "Be aware of the place where you are brought to tears. That's…

— Paulo Coelho

“No doubt you are wondering what you will find, out there.' The Commandant said it for me. 'Well, it would be useless for me…

— Robert Edison Fulton Jr

“She was his compass. His true north. She’d showed him the way home.”

— Loreth Anne White

“Many days later another caravan was passing and a man saw something on top of the highest dune there. And when they went up…

— Paul Bowles

“Gradually, I was getting worn down. My sense of direction had evaporated by our fourth day. When south became the opposite of east, I…

— Haruki Murakami

“The air was cool and soft. The desert looked empty from our great height, enough to believe the geographers and travel writers who tell…

— C. Lynn Murphy

It signified nothing that the raw, male magnetism that emanated from him probably made compasses malfunction in his presence.

— Gaelen Foley

“He needed to find that hard place inside that would center him like the middle of a compass. Throughout his life, the needle would…

— Naomi Hirahara