Heart Quote by Jhumpa Lahiri

“Here was an exposure, her soul an unmarked sheet shadowing into distinct shapes under the fluids. Fresh film. Her self, developing.”

— Mohja Kahf

“Let the dust settle, and you will see more clearly.”

— Genereux Philip

“She found herself too visible in silence; exposed in the quiet of reflection.”

— Tracey Lindberg

“There was something strange about her eyes. They were mysteriously lacking in depth. They were lovely eyes, but they did not seem to be…

— Haruki Murakami

“Standing before the worn books and dusty shelves, she seemed like a ray of light in the windowless room.”

— Lisa Kleypas

“And she saw beauty even in the tiny sparkles of dust suspended in the air, high above.”

— Rocio Sanchez

“She was like the dust that clung to his shirt. She was in the silences that had become so frequent at the house, silences…

— Khaled Hosseini

“She was perched on the windowsill. The brilliant light didn’t seem to bother her. I could just see her thinking to herself that if…

— Calia Read

“How she wanted to put away adult things and go back to seeing through a looking-glass, darkly.”

— Gregory Maguire

“It had rained, she said, and I imagined the beads of small water on the windshield like a thousand eyes, or each drop a…

— Simon Van Booy

“I was surrounded by words and stories and dust-speckled light. That's a pretty perfect way to be.”

— Natalie Lloyd

“He could see tiny particles of dust drifting in the air between her ankles, each fleck tumbling individually in and out of the sunlight,…

— Anthony Doerr