First time Quote by Marisa Silver

“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

“She had no one in the world. Her whole world, what was left of it, was here, and there was no way to get…

— Robert Goolrick

“All at once the world seemed very thin to her, more an idea than an actual thing, and barely there at all. She had…

— Stephen King

“But of course, it had all been her – by her and about her, and now she was back in the world, not one…

— Ian McEwan

“She found that the whole world could be contained in one place because that place was herself. Nothing had prepared her for this.”

— Jeanette Winterson

“I had no idea that my world was about to change because of her. Thus it is that major, climactic moments come and pass…

— Bhaskar Ghose

“It was a terror of the strange, of what was mysterious and unknown in her new world. And to think that all of it…

— Gabriel García Márquez

“The feeling that she had never really lived in this world caught her by surprise. It was a fact. She had never lived. Even…

— Han Kang

“As she wove in and out of all the people - rushing, talking, eating, laughing; some in clumps, some alone - she realized that…

— Kevin Henkes

“She had no existence, in herself. From earliest childhood she had believed this. Rather she was a reflecting surface, reflecting others' perception of her,…

— Joyce Carol Oates

“She pictured herself in a world without him, a world where she had only her own heart and mind to follow. A world open…

— Nicole Mones

“It was the comfort of knowing that she was not quite so strange, that there were other people who found delight in private challenges…

— Daphne Kalotay