Floating Quotes

394 quotes by 339 authors

Jose Palacios, his oldest servant, found him floating naked with his eyes open in the purifying waters of his bath and thought he had drowned. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
One of life's quiet excitements is to stand somewhat apart from yourself and watch yourself softly becoming the author of something beautiful even if it… — Norman Maclean
. . . I would have let him go one finger at a time, until, without his realizing, he'd be floating without me. And then… — Nicole Krauss
Turn on the dream you lived through the unwavering gaze. It is as you thought: the living burn. In the floating days may you discover… — Galway Kinnell
I felt like time was a great sea, and I was floating on the back of a turtle, and no sails broke the horizon. — Janet Fitch
Think of being curled up and floating in a darkness. Even if you could think, even if you had an imagination, would you ever imagine… — Denis Johnson
She waited for the train to pass. Then she said, "I sometimes think that peopleâ€™s hearts are like deep wells. Nobody knows whatâ€™s at the… — Haruki Murakami
I'll be looking for you, Will, every moment, every single moment. And when we do find each other again, we'll cling together so tight that… — Philip Pullman
All I'd ever wanted was to forget. but even when I thought I had, pieces had kept emerging, like bits of wood floating up to… — Sarah Dessen
She would be half a planet away, floating in a turquoise sea, dancing by moonlight to flamenco guitar. — Janet Fitch
I don't know if mama was right, that we each have a destiny, or if if was Lt Dan, that we are all just floating… — Winston Groom
Sometimes my fancy gets to floating inside me, threatening to carry me away like a leaf on a wind. Better to be a stone. — Shannon Hale
I was feeling everything too much. Everything pulled at my eyes. I spent hours floating in pools. — Dave Eggers
My mother has always been the point I calibrated myself against. In knowing where she was, I could always locate myself, as well. These months… — Sarah Dessen
My heart stopped. It just stopped beating. And for the first time in my life, I had that feeling. You know, like the world is… — Wendelin Van Draanen
But I remember seeing a mess of leaves suddenly go skittering in the wind and into the creek, then floating rapidly down the creek towards… — Jack Kerouac
Long after her death I felt her thoughts floating through mine. Long before we met we had had the same dreams. We compared notes. We… — Vladimir Nabokov
our real fears are the sounds of footsteps walking in the corridors of our minds, and the anxieties, the phantom floatings, they create. — Truman Capote
He'll pinch a cigarette between his fingers. He'll take a drag, blow that drag between his lips. He'll look at the firl with eyes the… — Maureen Medved
What an awful thing life is, isnâ€™t it? Itâ€™s like soup with lots of hairs floating on the surface. You have to eat it nevertheless. — Gustave Flaubert

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