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“He had never imagined so clearly the consequences of mailing a letter—the impossibility of retrieving it from the iron mouth of the box; the…

— Helen Simonson

“Alex, seated on her left, was one of those men who acted like he‟d been issued a certain number of words at birth and…

— Eileen Wilks

“It was like removing layers of crumpled brown paper from an awkwardly shaped parcel, and revealing the attractive present which it contained.”

— Diana Athill

“envelope she’d let fall to her lap, standing out so glaringly white against the skirt of her black bombazine gown, might contain a letter…

— Danice Allen

“It came to a stage when the postman was the most important individual in my life. My day began and ended with the letter…

— Shubha Dev

“Sarah was soon lugging pasteboard boxes, paper packages and rolled samples of wallpaper. She had seen all of this before: she had daydreamed it.…

— Jo Baker

“I’d always known that nothing would come between Alex and I, but that was just the “what.” Now that I saw that we could…

— Julianna Scott

“It was the sunlight coming through the window that woke Alex up; mother nature's own alarm clock rudely snapped him back to consciousness. The…

— J.C. Henderson

“For Alex to be enveloped into one of New York State's blue-ribbon families helped put to bed a lifetime of doubts and depression about…

— Melissa de la Cruz

“So Alex was counting the days until he would step on the holy soil of Boston, ready to breathe the cold Atlantic air and…

— George Sorbane

“For days I kept imagining the fate of the world's misplaced letters. I started noticing them everywhere. All the right letters sitting on desks…

— Avi Steinberg

“On Monday, however, when he returned to his house on the Street of Windows, he discovered a letter floating in a puddle inside the…

— Gabriel García Márquez