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“In India she had always felt hot and too languid to care much about anything. The fact was that the fresh wind from the…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“Harriet turned round, and we both saw a girl walking towards us. She was dark-skinned and thin, not veiled but dressed in a sitara,…

— Paul Torday

“Does a crow become a salmon simply because it wished to? You do not know the first thing about mortality, prince-who-is-not. Why would you…

— Julie Kagawa

“In this room hung with the trophies of culture, her story sounded melodramatic and rough. She felt like a squaw explaining how you tanned…

— Wallace Stegner

“The old Indian women dipped wooden spoons into stews and stirred and stirred. The stews made of random vegetables and commodity food, of failed…

— Sherman Alexie

“She forced her gaze up to his face. It was as sinfully gorgeous as the rest of him. He had the chiseled, proud features…

— Karen Marie Moning

“Strange Fruit Here is the girl's head like an exhumed gourd. Oval-faced, prune-skinned, prune-stones for teeth. They unswaddled the wet fern of her hair…

— Seamus Heaney

“have you heard about the young Hindu virgin from Kutch, who kept two tame snakes in her crutch, she said when they wriggle, it’s…

— Gerald Durrell

“Yet the very smell of food made her stomach oddly unsettled and she set down the bowl of porridge without taking a spoonful. That…

— Josie Litton

“I wanted to be weak that I might avoid the awful passage of further suffering I saw laid out for me; and conscience, turned…

— Charlotte Brontë

“Among the loose animals, the Keeper’s sick camel, a lady of brittle temper, had bobbed her tassels and sunk her yellow teeth three times…

— Dorothy Dunnett

“You were breaking my bones and spirit and forcing your beastly love on me: a brute, a savage, a wild Indian wouldn’t do what…

— Christina Stead