Full circle Quote by Thomas Pynchon

“She had noticed that there was a tendency on the part of some Americans to believe that everybody, deep inside, wanted to live in…

— Alexander McCall Smith

“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

“She wanted to understand the world, and she made a habit of chasing down information to its last hiding place, as though the fate…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“She blamed moral vices that weakened the whole society and worried that Americans were heading in the same direction.... Thought that so much land…

— Lynne Withey

“minds, who can show the rest of us what is important about the aliens’ differences. So Trixia’s”

— Vernor Vinge

“Her life seemed to her a great engineering work scarcely begun. Lately more excavation than construction had occurred. She had lost a sense of…

— Marge Piercy

“She was a rapidly rising anchor. She had what it took: great hair, a profound understanding of strategic lip gloss, the intelligence to understand…

— Douglas Adams

“for now she was not the only one stumbling through the dark looking for an elusive sense of connection with the wider world.”

— Elise Hooper

“America is woven of many strands. I would recognise them and let it so remain. Our fate is to become one, and yet many.”

— Ralph Ellison

“For the first time, her singularity, the fact that she felt different from every person she knew, made sense to her, and she realized…

— Marisa Silver

“... She might have thought that it was the case, that all things worked out in the end, and that the world was a…

— Emma Straub

“The whites were right to be afraid. One day the system would collapse in blood. An insurrection of one. She smiled for a moment,…

— Colson Whitehead