I started to wonder what it might have felt like to live…

“The universe, once a source of wonder, now felt like a cruel jester playing with his fragile heart. — Melissa, Ch. 19”

— Jacklyn A. Lo

“When I kissed her, I felt that my heart would tear through my chest for excitement and wonder, and then I felt a good,…

— Howard Fast

I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.

— Michelangelo

“I tried to distract myself by reading the various things that people had carved into the tabletop over the years. I traced my finger…

— Sara C. Roethle

Michelangelo indeed could have carved out your features.

— Bob Dylan

“He’s got hands so long and white and dainty I think they carved each other out of soap.”

— Ken Kesey

Surrounded by a burgeoning human population, Asian elephants have to contend with the spread of settlements and farming, and the demands of rapidly developing…

— Mark Shand

“The soul’s hand has an eye. *Carved on a rain-worn stone.* Welling-in-the-Mountains.”

— Betsy James

“What is carved on rocks were away in time. What is told from mouth to mouth will live forever.”

— Vietnamese

“You’re not like a relative of hers or something?” I cocked my head. “No. Though she does carry my name.” He frowned. I could…

— Karina Halle

“The Gods we worship write their names on our faces.” The face is carved from within by invisible tools; our thoughts, our moods, our…

— Orison Swett Marden

Listening to the type of music I grew up with, like King Sunny Ade, Fela Kuti and experiencing different things and conditions and hardship,…

— Nneka

I carved your name into this bullet so that everyone would know that you were the last thing going through my head.

— Anonymous

“I wanted a love thick with time, as inscrutable as if a lathe had carved it from night and as familiar as the marrow…

— Roshani Chokshi

The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has.

— Michelangelo