"All too often women believe it is a sign of commitment, an expression of love, to endure unkindness or cruelty, to forgive and forget....

"I have nothing more of my past with me than what I have retained in my mind." "For I look upon memory not as an element which...

"We all think we only have to be knocked a little bit off course and we've lost everything, but it's only the start of something new and...

“You should never hate anyone, even your worst enemies. Everyone has something good about them. You have to find the redeeming quality...

“We tell people to follow their dreams, but you can only dream of what you can imagine, and, depending on where you come from, your...

This is a uniquely structured novel set in an unnamed city during the Troubles in Northern Ireland. The story is narrated by an...

Through intertwining narratives, the author paints a vivid portrait of the lives of the residents of a seaside town in Haiti. The story...

“Everything else you can live around, but not death. Death you have to live through.” This story revolves around three siblings: Isma,...

“When someone you love dies, and you're not expecting it, you don't lose her all at once; you lose her in pieces over a long time—the way...

“I inhaled books like other people breathe oxygen. I didn't just read for knowledge or pleasure, I read to live.” In Order to Live is a...

"No one expected me. Everything awaited me." Just Kids is a memoir that recounts Patti Smith's relationship with the artist Robert...

“Every passion or wicked thought, every affliction or crime, every rebellion or catastrophe necessarily casts its shadow before it long...

“At the time, my life just seemed too complete, and maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves.” This...

“Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly – they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.” Brave New World is a...

“A fast didn't go fast; it was the slowest thing there was. Fast meant a door shut fast, firmly. A fastness, a fortress. To fast was to...

“Is it better for a man to have chosen evil than to have good imposed upon him?” A Clockwork Orange is a novel that is set in a dystopian...

“I was astounded at the passion and fire of the melody itself. I could not describe it then, nor can I now. Was it just his voice or...

“I made mistakes like this all the time, seeking affirmation from the very worst people, so that what I must have been after deep down...

“...status, as in any traditional, class-conscious society, declines more slowly than wealth.” The Reluctant Fundamentalist is a story...

“See, the poor dream all their lives of getting enough to eat and looking like the rich. And what do the rich dream of?? Losing weight...