Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice. - "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel García Márquez.

The sun set slowly in the west, casting long shadows across the city of Paris, transforming its streets into rivers of gold, its buildings glowing as if lit from within, a city holding its breath at the close of a summer's day. - "The Paris Wife" by Paula McLain.

Late in the evening of a mid-September day, the enormous train station at Agra, the gateway to the Taj Mahal, simmered in the heat of an ending day, its chaos ordered by the comings and goings of people like tides, a place of partings and reunions under the indifferent gaze of history. - "The White Tiger" by Aravind Adiga.