Quote by Joel Van Valin

“There was no experience, I thought, quite as wonderful as being an American in Paris.”

— Ann Mah

“[As a very young man, I thought] of Europe as a place that could not exist except in the imagination, in glorious dreams, and…

— Roman Payne

“He wanted, quite simply, for the world to be a better place. and he was in the habit of hoping for it.”

— Colum McCann

“and he felt that, just as he had conquered this place, he could conquer the world.”

— Paulo Coelho

“It didn't feel like my world. It felt more like a dream. Something temporary.”

— Kieran Scott

“It was as though someone, somewhere, were dreaming this and he had crossed into it without permission. Everything both familiar and foreign.”

— Paul Yoon

“After a while, I stop and sit down and look out over the water. On the other side is Europe. Somewhere over there is…

— Gayle Forman

“The whole world seemed to be quiet and calm and I wanted to be the world and feel like that.”

— Benjamin Alire Sáenz

“It’s what I imagined England would look like.”

— Maria Semple

“I felt as though I had been offered a whole new world, and at the center of it was, and always must be, him.”

— Mereda Hart Farynyk

“It was where I was supposed to be now. But it wasn't where I wanted to be.”

— Ivy Devlin

“Sometimes he felt like the only one on earth. He was different. He always was. His attempts at living in the regular world seemed…

— Ann Brashares