Quote by Arundhati Roy

“He knows I’m sinking fast, a stone dropping through the river. And he wants to drown with me. ”

— Victoria Aveyard

“He is as he always told me to be—a stone amid the waves; wet, yet unimpressed by all that swirls about him.”

— Pierce Brown

“I had witnessed his pain in motion; the way he had stroked over the sea fueled by something so similar to what fueled me.…

— Marni Mann

“He was like a shattered stained-glass window: something beautiful that's broken; a million colours fallen on the ground where no light can get through.”

— Glenda Millard

“It's through your wounds that your light pours out into the world.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“...for now he was in one of those crises when the soul yields a blurred glimpse of all that it enfolds, like an ocean,…

— Gustave Flaubert

“You all know we are only passing by. We only walk over these stones a few times, our boats float a little while and…

— Annie Proulx

“He woke early the next morning. It was still cool, but he opened the window and, leaning on the ledge, looked down at the…

— Rupert Thomson

“I had turned away from the picture and was going back to the world where events move, men change, light flickers, life flows in…

— Joseph Conrad

“I met someone.' And the leaves fell from the trees, landing to float in the calm black waters.”

— Leslye Walton

“He was looking into that strange place, the middle distance, the most mysterious, human, and rich of all distances. And from his eyes came…

— Sebastian Barry

“But I didn't see it. I believed him unchanging, a stone in all good senses of the word, solid, dependable, something and someone you…

— Ally Condie