Abyss Quote by Cassandra Clare

“Looking down at her blood-stained shirt she felt numb. The world seemed to spin and the edges of her vision began to turn black.…

— Katie Cody

She felt the abyss of disenchantment.

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“She felt as if she was standing at the edge of an abyss, but she was in no way counting on God to rescue…

— Lene Kaaberbøl

She felt everything too deeply, it was like the world was too much for her.

— Joyce Maynard

She was like a drowning person, flailing, reaching for anything that might save her. Her life was an urgent, desperate struggle to justify her…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“She thought her world had stopped falling apart, but she was wrong. It had simply become isolated, her focus narrowed to struggling not to…

— Lorraine Heath

Through her, in microcosm, the wide earth sobbed. The starglobe sank in her; the colours faded. The death-dew rose and the wild birds in…

— Mervyn Peake

“She had been grief stricken as her father lay dying but now she felt weightless, the way people do when they're no longer sure…

— Alice Hoffman

She turned her face seaward to gather in an impression of space and solitude, which the vast expanse of water, meeting and melting with…

— Kate Chopin

“She hovered above the mental abyss, kept from falling by force of will. Shut out the world by descending into darkness, the closest she…

— Taylor Stevens

“She sat on the stoop alone, gazing up at an infinite sky as it held her and pushed her away all at once.”

— Abby Slovin

“So much darkness made her uneasy. There was definitely a weight pushing down on the world. Misfortune was always hovering close around people’s shoulders.…

— Leila Aboulela