Body Quote by Michael Ondaatje

“She entered the story knowing she would emerge from it feeling she had been immersed in the lives of others,”

— Michael Ondaatje

“They had been dreams borrowed from stories, dreams she had clung to because she had yet to imagine her own dreams.”

— Stephanie Garber

“Her mind was still tiptoeing along the boundary of consciousness, in that state of semi-waking that spins threads between dream and real, and for…

— Laini Taylor

“He knew that she had been dreaming that night and he knew what her dreams were about. She had forgotten them. He forebode to…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“...she knew that in all stories she must be left out-the life she had made for herself was a life of flight, of discarding…

— Yiyun Li

“For the rest, she grew used to the life that she was leading - used to the enormous sleepless nights, the cold, the dirt,…

— George Orwell

“[About the main character approaching death in old age, observed by her husband . . .] He saw that she had already laid down…

— Michael D. O'Brien

She remembered the heroines of novels she had read, and the lyrical legion of those adulterous women began to sing in her memory with…

— Anonymous

She was able to feel active creation going on around her in the rocks and hills, where the mystery of lust took place; and…

— Christina Stead

“Yet the stories moved her. She couldn’t deny it. And they moved her in a way only *true* things could. It wasn’t sentiment that…

— Clive Barker

“she sees her life pass before her in rapid succession, like clouds, different shapes and different colors, merging, passing into one another, the story…

— Edna O'Brien

“She slept but a few hours. They were troubled and feverish hours, disturbed with dreams that were intangible, that eluded her, leaving only an…

— Kate Chopin