Quote by Mohsin Hamid

“Once as Nadia sat on the steps of a building reading the news on her phone across the street from a detachment of troops…

— Mohsin Hamid

“Nadia now lies back as her body perks up at me like the white lotus that reaches for the sun’s love. I now come…

— Luccini Shurod

“As day gradually turns to night, Nadia then lifts her naked body from the floor, and like a goddess, she moves across the room…

— Luccini Shurod

“Nadia," she says, very softly. I lean forward, straining to hear. Her expression has changed, drawn, as if in pain. "She's gone," she whispers.…

— Sharon Cameron

“Tatiana lived for that evening hour with him that propelled her into her future and into the barely formed, painful feelings that she could…

— Paullina Simons

“...he realized that here, amongst the dunes and stars … Here, in the heart of a foreign land … Here, with her, he was home.”

— Sarah J. Maas

“Alma's existence at once felt bigger and much, much smaller — but a pleasant sort of smaller. The world had scaled itself down into…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“This did not in any way alter her intention of accomplishing her mission; on the contrary; it seemed to her all the more desperately…

— Jane Bowles

“I was moved beyond words. The train ride over the mountains from lake Titticaca to Cusco reminded me of Africa where I grew up;…

— Jay Woodman

“She had a great desire for knowledge, but she really preferred almost any source of information to the printed page; she had an immense…

— Henry James

“Only a few days earlier he had explained to her that he did not merely read books but traveled with them, that they took…

— Jan-Philipp Sendker

“And so Cristina submerged her ears beneath the water and the world grew a little quieter; her hair fanned out atop the plane and…

— Chris Bohjalian