Cities-spaces-places Quote by William Dalrymple Download Open image ““There was that all-pervasive evening scent of cut grass and jasmine.”” — William Dalrymple ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cities-spaces-places
“Dove smiled in satisfaction. “Something I picked up in the south of France. It’s the purest jasmine from Grasse, which makes it very special indeed.” “Why?” Evie sniffed again. The scent was rich and sensual, curling against her like a cat and warming itself on her skin. “Child, jasmine is one of the most seductive scents imaginable, and the stuff… — Deanna Raybourn Copy Share
“He was barefoot, dressed in a black slacks with a thin belt and a sea-green silk shirt. His hair was damp, and he’d brushed… — Colleen Houck Copy Share Image
“Let me not so much be lost in involvements as would make me incapable of recognizing the fragrance of the flower beaming in my… — Suman Pokhrel Copy Share Image
“Summer breeze, makes me feel fine, blowing through the jasmine in my mind.” — Seals & Crofts Copy Share Image
“You can never appreciate the scent of a flower by another's description. Some things are left to experience. Journey of self.” — Truth Devour Copy Share Image
“I stepped out to the lawn. I remember the air that night, and how it was so brisk that it could revive the dead.… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
“He couldn't stop smelling the air in great, deep, loud sniffs. It was so delicious. It smelled of water, and mud, and maple trees,… — Elizabeth Enright Copy Share Image
“the rich meadow-grass seemed that morning of a freshness and a greenness unsurpassable. Never had they noticed the roses so vivid, the willow-herb so… — Kenneth Grahame Copy Share Image
“There is so much jasmine and nightshade in the garden that we all wake with lyrical headaches.” — Frances Mayes Copy Share Image
“He smelled like grass and warm earth, like smoke and semen and horses.” — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“To subdue and crush the masses of a nation by military force, when all are unanimous in the determination to be free, is to… — William Dalrymple Copy Share Image
For me they go hand in hand. When I travel it makes me want to write, when I read it makes me want to… — William Dalrymple Copy Share Image
Partition was a total catastrophe for Delhi,’ she said. ‘Those who were left behind are in misery. Those who were uprooted are in misery.… — William Dalrymple Copy Share Image
“Across the broken apses and shattered naves of a hundred ruined Byzantine churches, the same smooth, cold, neo-classical faces of the saints and apostles stare down like a gallery of deaf mutes; and through this thundering silence the everyday reality of life in the Byzantine provinces remains persistently difficult to visualise. The sacred and aristocratic nature of Byzantine art means… — William Dalrymple Copy Share
“During the war, my son Alfred [Cochrane] went up [to Bsharre, in Lebanon] to see some friends. On the road, he was stopped by the Marada militia. They put a gun to his head and tied him to a tree. When Alfred was at Eton he quickly learned how to get out of beatings, and his experience came in very… — William Dalrymple Copy Share
“I lost my mother when I was three years old. She had some small injury – a piece of metal pierced her foot –… — William Dalrymple Copy Share Image
“...'unless you convert to Orthodoxy, you too will follow your Pope down that valley, through the scorching fire. We will watch you from this… — William Dalrymple Copy Share Image
“Few, few shall part where many meet, The snow shall be their winding sheet; And every turf beneath their feet Shall be a soldier’s… — William Dalrymple Copy Share Image
...Dean Mohamet, a Muslim landowner from Patna who had followed his British patron to Ireland. There he soon eloped with, and later marries, Jean… — William Dalrymple Copy Share Image
“Thanks to all Zafar’s precautions, ‘Id passed peacefully on 1 August. The British, who were aware through their spies of the growing communal tension,… — William Dalrymple Copy Share Image
“The first Embassy to Afghanistan by a western power left the Company's Delhi Residency on 13 October 1808, with the Ambassador accompanied by 200… — William Dalrymple Copy Share Image
“I grew up in extreme poverty,’ said Hari Das. ‘Like me, my father was a day labourer, who also did theyyam during the season.… — William Dalrymple Copy Share Image
“Traffic's not too bad on Sheridan, and I'm cornering the car like it's the Indy 500, and we're listening to my favorite NMH song, "Holland, 1945," and then onto Lake Shore Drive, the waves of Lake Michigan crashing against the boulders by the Drive, the windows cracked to get the car to defrost, the dirty, bracing, cold air rushing in,… — John Green Copy Share
“After a week's worth of failed fairy tales—stories that made my eyelids flutter open and not shut—my father tried telling me stories that belonged only to him. Thomas told me of an island off the coast of a different world. On this island, there stood a city whose buildings were made of glass. He told me that at the heart… — Monique Truong Copy Share
“New York may end up being no more than a scrim, a spectral film that is none other than our craving for romance—romance with life, with masonry, with memory, sometimes romance with nothing at all. This longing goes out to the city and from the city comes back to us. Call it narcissism. Or call it passion. It has its… — André Aciman Copy Share
“Paris is an ocean," a lawyer called Honoré said to me in a bar on the place Vendôme later that night. We were very drunk. "You can take as many soundings as you like, but you'll never reach the bottom of it. You can survey it, draw it, describe it. But, however thorough you are, however careful and scrupulous, something… — Rebecca Stott Copy Share
“We would meet outside the same wine bar we had gone to on our first date, and from there we would wander through the city for five or six hours since neither one of us had a private place that we could retreat to. Walking out in the open for so long only helped to draw us closer. There was… — Dinaw Mengestu Copy Share
“One has not the alternative of speaking of London as a whole, for the simple reason that there is no such thing as the… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“Scientists estimate that the Siberian permafrost holds the remains of 150 million mammoths—or about 8 million more than the 142 million Russians aboveground in Russia today.” — Ian Frazier Copy Share Image
“Every walk carves out a new city. And each of these tiny cities has its main square, a downtown area all its own, its… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“I drove out of Dartmouth and after a while Start Bay emerged out of the brightening gloom like the end of a set of… — Scarlett Thomas Copy Share Image
“Beyond this point on the river Cambridge became a kind of miniature Venice, its river water lapping up against the ancient stone of college… — Rebecca Stott Copy Share Image
“And probably every object that we make room for in our life immediately structures that life—the important thing, don't you agree, is to actually… — Daniël Robberechts Copy Share Image
“We are far from liking London well enough till we like its defects: the dense darkness of much of its winter, the soot on… — Henry James Copy Share Image
