Quote by Herman Melville

“At last, the world stops spinning. The ground is solid beneath her feet once more.”

— Wendy Corsi Staub

“She wondered how big the world was, really, when you crossed it, instead of traced it with your finger on the map.”

— Jodi Picoult

“But none notice that she is moving with difficulty through a world that is tipped on its side, or see that she fears falling…

— Elizabeth Freemantle

“It's a simple world for her. A curtain fluttering - that's how she is - lives, moves - obediently, yet with every appearnace of…

— William H. Gass

“It's as though she holds to the walls of a canyon. If I move wrong she will look over her shoulder, let go, and…

— Ally Condie

“She’d noticed immediately that I understood the lure of a good story. Sometimes a world that doesn’t exist is the only escape from the…

— Lisa Wingate

“She would have an adventure. For herself. This one time. She would see her homeland, and smell it and breathe it in. See it…

— Sarah J. Maas

“She was held together by a thread. Not even a strong fishing wire, but the kind of thread that could fray and break in…

— R.L. Griffin

“In fact, if he stood here staring at her bottom for very much longer, he would be saluting her with something much more tangible…

— Annie Burrows

“Left to herself, she climbed trees and seemed to dream. From her perch she studied the world...”

— Anonymous

“Conversation was tedious; she wanted something big, and she believed that it would have come to her on the windswept platform of an electric…

— E.M. Forster

“She’d just seen her dead grandmother and had a lovesick warlock on her lawn. The last thing she needed was to worry about extraterrestrial…

— Michelle M. Pillow