“Perceptive observers saw civilization thinned to a mere veneer, with barbarism surging just beneath the surface, straining for release.” — Bruce Brander Copy Share Image
“War doesn’t start with an explosion….It bears far more subtlety. A simmer beneath the surface, as if bringing broth to a boil.” — Kristina McMorris Copy Share Image
“The River', a poem from 'Profound Vers-A-Tales': Your perception of my exterior may not match what lies beneath the surface.” — Kamil Ali Copy Share Image
“Mosca had been so busy working the oars of her little plan that she had failed to see the iceberg upon which… — Frances Hardinge Copy Share Image
“Don’t worry. If we sink, we’ll swim together to shore. We’ll use your bewitching chapeau as a float.” The nose of the… — Shana Abe Copy Share Image
“There’s nothing to be scared of, right Akhol?” He said nothing as he stepped toward the rushing water that rolled around a… — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
“By the time James had dressed and made his way down to the Great Hal for breakfast, it was nearly ten o’clock.… — G. Norman Lippert Copy Share Image
I think my cruelty hides beneath the surface a lot more than Sue Sylvester's. — Jane Lynch Copy Share Image
“The British legacy was mixed. The British left behind a prosperous country with tremendous potential. A modern, Western-style democracy was in place… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our point isn't to make an examination of popular film but to illustrate that the yearning for a heroic adventure lies just… — Alan Hirsch Copy Share Image
So when he touched me, it was deeper and slower than the wildfire, like the flow of molten rock far beneath the… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
“Before us the thick dark current runs. It talks up to us in a murmur become ceaseless and myriad, the yellow surface… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Now imagine that you are going beneath the surface of the ocean. Below the surface all is calm, silent, and serene. As… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“I have decided that I am in love, but love is a painful hotspot roil beneath the surface of me in a… — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
“A pneumatic toy frog hops onto a lily pad, trembling. Beneath the surface, lies terror.” — Thomas Pynchon 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
“The surface causes of environmental carelessness among conservative Christians are legion, including subcontracting the evangelical mind out to right-wing politicians and greedy… — Brian D. McLaren Copy Share Image
Accept me for who I am and not what you see. Take time to understand the peices of me. What you see… — Mjane Copy Share Image
I think we need to always mimic reality in our fiction. I think that we can stir things up and reveal a… — Christopher Rice Copy Share Image
“...how necessary it was to stay on the surface of things. Because beneath the surface was either dread or delirium.” — nam le Copy Share Image
“The violence of nature masks the beauty and joy that hide just beneath the surface.” — Jack Borden Copy Share Image
Nothing worthy can be built on a neglect of higher meanings and on a relativistic view of concepts and culture as a… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“Unfortunately, the source of my shittiness is the fact that I’m shitty. I just am. It is not possible for me to… — Allie Brosh 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
