"In the same way, a village on the side of a hill, seen from a train, may look like the perfect place to spend the rest of the your days, yet if you were to get out of the train and go into the village you would find that the magic had escaped from it to settle on the tail of the departing train which had so bored you as you sat in it and yearned towards the village." - from The Happy Prisoner by Monica Dickens

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"An afternoon stroll is never quite so luxurious as when you're totally unnecessary to your surroundings." -- from 'Three Streets' by Yoko Tawada (tr. Margaret Mitsutani)

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"The scent of the library greeted him like a warm and welcoming bed: the acetate aroma of the inks, the acrid wilderness smell of the parchment, the perfume of dust and resin that impregnated the wooden shelves..How he loved this place!" -- from The Eye Stone by Roberto Tiraboschi (tr. Katherine Gregor)

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"He had the breadth of an epic writer and the bleakness of a comedian." - from Käsebier Takes Berlin by Gabriele Tergit, tr. Sophie Duvernoy

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"As everyone who lives in New York City knows, each building must have at least one working opera singer. Each residential building, at any rate. It’s a fact—part of the fabric of the city." -- from The Doorman's Repose written and illustrated by Chris Raschka

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"One benefit of Summer was that each day we had more light to read by." - from The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls

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"Soulmates, the book and its reader. An amorous coupling that lasts just moments, but at maximum intensity!" - from 'The Censor's Notebook' by Liliana Corobca, translated by Monica Cure

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"She was an illustrator, a playwright, and an actress at only eight and a half years old, but nobody in my house noticed; it was one of the ways she spent her time, just like any other." - from Lesser Islands by Lorenza Pieri

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(Art credit: Henri le Fauconnier)

"On the wall she would hang an Indian sari shot through with gold thread and sewn with tiny glass bits that reflected the light like spangles. On the floor she’d lay a woven ikat carpet from Indonesia. The bed she would cover with a wondrous cloth brought back from some remote, mystical region of Bhutan and scatter on it Ming-style embroidered cushions." - from Inheritance from Mother by Minae Mizumura

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"In all the years I have been in Budapest I have never ceased to be astonished and to look in wonder at the people, the shop windows, the hubbub—everything. To me it all seems at once comical and deeply unsettling." -- from 'The Fawn' by Magda Szabó, translated by Len Rix

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"It takes a certain build to stay standing on this line. You've got to bend, walk sideways. The old houses have buckled at the knees, but still hold firm. They're digging in to shelter behind the dunes. They shiver on windswept plains behind gust-warped trees. They have hipped roofs and little windows. Everything is about making themselves small, against the pressure of the wind."
--from 'A Line in the World' by Dorthe Nors

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"A granny of solid, reliable stuff who, following some minor repairs and some more serious renovation a couple of years ago, still preserved so much sparkle and wit that when friends came to see me from faraway countries I always took them to visit her, because, of all the antiquities to be seen in my northern Polish city, she was the most fascinating."
--from Lala by Jacek Dehnel

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"The smile meant nothing. It was one of habit. She put it on in the morning along with her lipstick and removed it at night when she washed her face."
--from 'A Stranger In My Grave' by Margaret Millar

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“To see that your life is a story while you're in the middle of living it may be a help to living it well.”
― Gifts' by Ursula K. Le Guin

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Artwork credit: Linda Apple

"It is a custom among Snergs to pay for their shopping with stories. This makes for long queues on market days, but nobody minds if they have a tale to listen to—and the good thing about stories, unlike money, is that they never run out."
--The Marvellous Land of Snergs by Veronica Cossanteli

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"The sky arched high over his head, blue, serene, limitless; puffs of white cloud were drifting slowly across its surface. A sky like that reached endlessly over the world, he thought, covering a world so vast and so complex that if a man were to seek out his rôle in it he would not have time to brood over a lost illusion."
--'Country Place' by Ann Petry
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"This city cannot be lost since it was never owned (in the sense that human beings can come to "own" a city by hours of walking, by the ability to mentally replace every street sign with an incident that took place there.)"
--from the superb novel 'The Art of Losing' by Alice Zeniter

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(Art: Michel Delacroix's Matin d'Avril)