Quote by Linda Colley

“and though there was no longer anything to be astonished at, still manifest reality always has something shocking about it.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“They broke the way a man dismantling a mine broke the second his geography exploded.”

— Michael Ondaatje

“The world was a fragile place, full of cracks that didn’t always show. One misstep, and they might fissure, break. One wrong move, and…

— V.E. Schwab

“New things, new ideas arrived and strutted their stuff and were vilified by some and then lo! that which had been a monster was…

— Terry Pratchett

“There are always words. An endless line, and progression of tiny moments leading to the earth shattering end.”

— Dawn Cano

“Geography was fungible, fluid, unreliable.”

— Catherynne M. Valente

“He understood the impact of his question, his words falling like stones into a shadowy lake—on the surface things return to normal, but in…

— Shades of Gray

“Everything suddenly seems displaced, subtle gradations erase borders, but it’s more forceful than that.”

— Bret Easton Ellis

“There was a way of looking at the world where practically every single thing that happened had some kind of double meaning.”

— Joyce Maynard

“I found it hard to write the bits where the things that were at first surprising or even shocking became normal incrementally until I…

— Olivia Sudjic

“The strange high that comes from arriving changed in a familiar landscape.”

— G. Willow Wilson

“On the surface, there was always an impeccably realistic world, but underneath, behind the backdrop's cracked canvas, lurked something different, something mysterious or abstract.”

— Milan Kundera