Sink Quotes

647 Sink quotes by 523 unique authors

In my head I try and reach back, through the fence, past the smoke; I try and grab his hand and pull. Alex, come back.… — Lauren Oliver
I see nothing. We may sink and settle on the waves. The sea will drum in my ears. The white petals will be darkened with… — Virginia Woolf
The idea began to sink in, more than it ever had, that I might be crazy, in the traditional sense of the word. That I… — Marya Hornbacher
Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deep trust, a free act of love—but sometimes it was so hard to love.… — Yann Martel
I don't know," I said. "Maybe you're right, and all that stuff I think I missed is overrated. Why should I even bother? What's the… — Sarah Dessen
He runs to the sink to spit it out. I grin. There’s nothing quite as funny as someone else’s misery. — Holly Black
Women want everything of a lover. And too often I would sink below the surface. So armies disappear under sand. And there was her fear… — Michael Ondaatje
I didn't want to see them lower him into the ground in the spot he'd picked out with his dad, and I didn't want to… — John Green
You can't cling to the side your whole life, that one lesson every parent needs to teach a child is "If you don't want to… — Jeannette Walls
However late you think you are, however many chances you think you have missed, however many mistakes you feel you have made or talents you… — Jeffrey R. Holland
Who knows the end? What has risen may sink, and what has sunk may rise. Loathsomeness waits and dreams in the deep, and decay spreads… — H P Lovecraft
And some day there will be nothing left of everything that has twisted my life and grieved it and filled me so often with such… — Hermann Hesse
When I have fears that I may cease to be Before my pen has glean'd my teeming brain, Before high-piled books, in charactery, Hold like… — John Keats
For a split second I felt as though she was nobody special in the larger scheme of my life. She was just some girl who… — Miranda July
Sink into morbid, cynical reflection on how much romantic heartbreak is to do with ego and miffed pride rather than actual loss — Helen Fielding
There are books which we read early in life, which sink into our consciousness and seem to disappear without leaving a trace. And then one… — Anais Nin
I found that things became a lot easier when I no longer expected to win. You abandon your masterpiece and sink into the real masterpiece. — Leonard Cohen
We are sensitized by the books we read. And the more books we read, and the deeper their lessons sink into us, the more pairs… — Alain de Botton
Clouds sink down the hills Coffee is hot again. The dog Turns and turns about, stops and sleeps. — Gary Snyder
My body rises with the water. Instead of kicking my feet to stay abreast of it, I push all the air from my lungs and… — Veronica Roth
I had to use my wits or else I'd have been sunk - and nothings going to sink me. Everyone was always pulling at me,… — Marilyn Monroe
In order really to write one has to sink deep into the self and become lost there. — John Banville
Your scare me rather. My reflection in the glass never did that; of course, I knew it so well. Like something I had tamed...I'm going… — Jean-Paul Sartre
She brooded and bit her rich lips: my soul began its first sink into her, deep, heady, lost; like drowning in a witches' brew, Keltic,… — Jack Kerouac
With the supplies gathered, he went over to the stainless-steel sink and pressed the foot pedal to get the water running. While he washed his… — J R Ward

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