Claire

“Everything looked strangely isolated, as if each item in the landscape had been purchased separately from a catalog.”
― Elif Batuman, The Idiot

“Suryaz and Deme would each need a talisman, an object that smelt lovely, or that felt kind to the hand; such things are little suitcases to put sad feelings in so that they can go away by themselves.”
― Helen Oyeyemi, White Is for Witching

“I couldn't imagine viewing Bill's presence on Earth as any kind of a miracle, but wasn't that itself the miracle—that love really was an obscure and unfathomable connection between individuals, and not an economic contest where everyone was matched up according to how quantifiably lovable they were?”
― Elif Batuman, The Idiot

“The sky looked like a loaf of glowing grayish laundry that someone had washed with a red shirt.”
― Elif Batuman, The Idiot