“I saw the void beneath the surface of the world; it threatened to pull me under.” — Rachel Hartman Copy Share Image
It's not unusual to find big political shifts that take place beneath the surface before they're visible above the surface. — Al Gore Copy Share Image
Look beneath the surface; let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The water is calm, but the currents pull beneath the surface. Though they can’t be seen, they have the power to drag… — Erin Hunter Copy Share Image
“Immortality in a book-lined catacomb down beneath the surface of the earth, or death up here, with all this? I'll take death… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
The past lies beneath the surface, intransigent truth. Remembered or not, what we say and do remains, always. — Meredith Hall Copy Share Image
Is it not clear that a reviewer's psyche, like an iceberg, is seven-eighths beneath the surface? — Delmore Schwartz Copy Share Image
Everyone can feel the nothingness, the void, just beneath the surface of everyday routines and securities. — John Zerzan Copy Share Image
I prefer to focus on who I am as a person and what I stand for. We all want to look good,… — Alesha Dixon Copy Share Image
We are acquainted with a mere pellicle of the globe on which we live. Most have not delved six feet beneath the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“The only people who really think they have seen something new are those whose experience is limited or whose vision can't penetrate… — Warren W. Wiersbe Copy Share Image
I like neurotic people. I like troubled people. Not that I don't like squared-away people, but I prefer neurotic people. I like… — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
“To know that seeing the fish beneath the surface of the water was enough. That it was everything. It was my life--… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
There's no love more intense than the love we have for our kids-and where there is intense love, there is also intense… — Arianna Huffington Copy Share Image
“The tree you behold, so fresh and alive, whose fruit seems to come without delay, has in reality been patiently maturing for… — Kamaran Ihsan Salih Copy Share Image
If we get caught up in a story, it's because we've started to care about the characters, and that can only happen… — Morris Gleitzman Copy Share Image
“It's all so new, so foreign, so much like that period of childhood -first or second grade, maybe- when you're old enough… — Kevin Hazzard Copy Share Image
“I walked until the water lapped against my chest, and then I kept walking until it kissed the underside of my jaw.… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
“Being in the depths of the ocean was like being in the womb, suspended in a liquid environment, listening to my own… — Tom North Copy Share Image
As [The Nation columnist Katha] Pollitt points out, when one starts looking beneath the surface of things and adding together the out-front… — Natalie Angier Copy Share Image
“What if being able to see actually distracts a person from the truth of things, beneath the surface? What if I saw… — Loretta Lost Copy Share Image
I am attracted to a thug. I like that quality, but I like the other side of it, too. Because all guys… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
“The burning glow of fire basked him in a warm light. I feared to look at him, to study him again after… — Rae Z. Ryans Copy Share Image
“We feel safe around authentic people, as if we could reveal to them our deepest, darkest secrets, as if we could trust… — Joshua Fields Millburn Copy Share Image
“Were they aware, in the intensity of their embrace, of something slightly ridiculous about this tableau, something almost comical, as someone nearby… — Sally Rooney Copy Share Image
“She was twelve,” Claybourne went on, his voice flat, but the fury still simmering just beneath the surface. “Sold to a house… — Lorraine Heath Copy Share Image
“Like That" Love me like a wrong turn on a bad road late at night, with no moon and no town anywhere… — Kim Addonizio Copy Share Image
“As the sun shines low and red across the water, I wade into the ocean. The water is still high and brown… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Music burst through him, perfect notes he hear rarely. Fire and ice, wind and calm, sky and earth, water and rock all… — Christine Feehan Copy Share Image
“The more he saw, the more he doubted. He watched men narrowly, and saw how, beneath the surface, courage was often rashness;… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“The Old Testament allusions frequently presuppose their Old Testament context and a range of connexions between Old Testament texts which are not… — Richard Bauckham Copy Share Image
“As I speak, his fingers trail down my arm. I’m just so relieved he’s willing to touch me after I’ve told him… — Sophie Jordan Copy Share Image
“Until then she had been blind, but when she saw those mountains, she slipped beneath the surface of the war and found… — Tatjana Soli Copy Share Image
“I don’t think stress makes a person “not me.” I think it brings out the “me” beneath the surface.” — William L. Myers Jr Copy Share Image
“I, who had wanted to live a life high above everyone else, ended up with a son who would rather live deep… — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
“i wonder what goes on night and day beneath the surface of a cemetery.” — B. Traven Copy Share Image
Eroticism bubbles beneath the surface of every vampire story, but Anne Rice is a writer to make the pot boil. — Janet Maslin Copy Share Image
By choosing not to allow parts of ourselves to exist, we are forced to expend huge amounts of psychic energy to keep… — Debbie Ford Copy Share Image
“The violence of nature masks the beauty and joy that hide just beneath the surface.” — Jack Borden Copy Share Image
“He plunged beneath the surface and knew that these were Elyon's waters, and his lake had no bottom.” — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image