Smoke and mirrors Quote by Dinaw Mengestu

“She had noticed that there was a tendency on the part of some Americans to believe that everybody, deep inside, wanted to live in…

— Alexander McCall Smith

“Suddenly, everything was beautiful. The way she viewed the world was nothing more but a reflection of herself.”

— robert m drake

“She couldn’t believe the peculiar and pretentious state of the world that she had once felt so at home in...”

— H.C. Roberts

“Maybe illusions should be left alone. Because without them, everything looked broken and ugly.”

— Amanda Howells

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

— Pat Conroy

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

— Dalia Sofer

“When everything is never as it seems, how can you tell the illusions from the reality?”

— Sacha Gordon

“She hoped Smoke was wrong about people being unknowable. She hoped that she could crack herself open like a nut and know herself, at…

— Bonnie Jo Campbell

“Her laugh. The way she smoked before she gave up. Smoke trickling up her nostrils. Spokes of smoke when she spoke.”

— Craig Raine

“She had a wild imagination, and sometimes she could fool herself.”

— Kimberly Raiser

“She had this way of always finding the good and believing in everything despite all she had seen.”

— Becca Lee

“She had looked in the mirror a million times and only saw the brown of her skin and not the magic flowing beneath it.”

— Bernice L. McFadden