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“It was all so artificial. It was beautiful, but it did not belong to her. She was a tourist, an outsider, and she could…

— Penni Russon

“She wondered if she was alone in having nothing between the dullness of her own days and the sheer brilliance of this imagined life.”

— Colm Tóibín

“I think that her life was about finding the extraordinary in every day. It was how she could sit in her garden on a…

— Karen White

“It was finally all clicking together. Her life had a purpose after all. Every life had a purpose and she promised herself that she…

— Ina Zajac

“She could not understand why this world, which was so full of beauty and wonder, had to also be so full of horrors.”

— Jeanne DuPrau

“She was thinking about the way she’d always taken for granted that the world had certain people in it, either central to her days…

— Emily St. John Mandel

“What a wonderful world in the land of wonder?”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“That was what I loved most about the capital; as terrifying and vast as it was, the opportunity for wonder existed. People could meet…

— Nina Antonia

“She couldn't avoid being serious about things she cared for, and happiness made her grave at the thought of all the things which might…

— Graham Greene

“when she was able to imagine a different life that might have been hers, the kind of life she knew that she'd always really…

— Nicholas Sparks

“Then she would wander through fields, over simple, poor land, looking carefully and keenly all round her, still getting used to being alive in…

— Andrei Platonov

“What she coaxed out of me was a visceral need to live, and wasn't that what fueled immortality and made it worthwhile anyway? That…

— Roshani Chokshi