Quote by William Saroyan

“He lived in a world that was visible, even if it didn't always please him to be there.”

— Arthur Golden

“I think that's the point of view of an outsider, a tourist who puts picturesqueness above everything else.”

— Paul Bowles

“Absent- that was what he was: so absent from everything most densely real and near to those about him that it sometimes startled him…

— Edith Wharton

“The place is special, but mostly because how it turns my thoughts." He looked around them. "When I look at mountains like that, I…

— Tricia Goyer

“He HAD seen the world. It had been scary at times, but also exhilarating. Who could have imagined it would be such a complicated,…

— Elise Broach

“an insatiable curiosity about the people I encounter wherever I go.”

— David Topus

“When you belonged nowhere, you sort of belonged everywhere.”

— Ann Brashares

“familiarity with the secret place is familiarity with the glory place. Abide in his presence.”

— Ikechukwu Joseph

“...without moving a muscle in his face, slips away; retreats, I think, to that sheltered place where his stories are kept. Perhaps we all…

— Pete Dexter

“There were places, she now saw, that contained more happiness than ordinary places did. Unless you knew that such places existed, you might be…

— Matthew Thomas

“She would take him to faraway lands to observe foreign ways, so he could get closer to the strangeness within himself.”

— Fatima Mernissi

“To belong somewhere. That was something much more important than belonging to someone. Now, he used to think to himself that maybe he took too…

— Robert Neil Fleischer