Surface Quotes
1360 quotes by 1055 authors
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On our honeymoon we talked and talked. We stayed in a beachfront villa, and we drank rum and lemonade and talked so much that I…
— Chris Cleave
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If at the one moment in your life when the chance of something transcendental is offered to you, if you have this chance to move…
— Sebastian Faulks
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You might think you made a new world or a new self, but your old self is always gonna be there, just below the surface,…
— Haruki Murakami
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Place unopened pouch in warm water for 5-10 minutes. Unopened pouch may be laid on a warm surface. Lay unopened pouch in direct sunlight. Not…
— S.A. Bodeen
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She was battered and beaten up, and not smiling this time. Liesel could see it on her face. Blood leaked from her nose and licked…
— Markus Zusak
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Friendship is a simple thing, and yet complicated; friendship is on the surface, something natural, something taken for granted, and yet underneath one could find…
— Jamaica Kincaid
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Every intimacy carries secreted somewhere below its initial lovely surfaces, the ever-coiled makings of complete catastrophe.
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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When the climbers in 1953 planted their flags on the highest mountain, they set them in snow over the skeletons of creatures that had lived…
— John McPhee
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God is not attracted to mountaintops or church steeples. God is drawn to suffering, and the dark places it surfaces, which is why sharing pain…
— Keith Ablow
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I'm skimming across the surface of my own history, moving fast, riding the melt beneath the blades, doing loops and spins, and when I take…
— Tim O'Brien
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The witchlight made his skin paler, his eyes more intently blue. They were the color of the water in the North Atlantic, where the ice…
— Cassandra Clare
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There's so much humanity in a love of trees, so much nostalgia for our first sense of wonder, so much power in just feeling our…
— Muriel Barbery
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I trailed off.Patch leaned lazily against the counter. Dark hair flipped out from under his ball cap. A smile tugged at his mouth. My thoughts…
— Becca Fitzpatrick
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and then he could not see her come into a room without a sense of the flowing of robes, of the flowering of blossoms, of…
— Virginia Woolf
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Often secret desires as well as abilities surface in our dreams.
— P. C. Cast
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They'd had fun, for sure. They laughed and enjoyed being together. But if she was painfully honest with herself, something was missing. Something in the…
— Karen Kingsbury
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Nothing stands for content-free corporate bullshit quite like PowerPoint. And that's just scratching the surface...
— Charles Stross
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I have listened to many tales in my life, and told a few of my own. If this has taught me anything, it is that…
— Juliet Marillier
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Sometimes, Edie, a person's feelings aren't rational. At least, they don't seem that way on the surface. You have to dig a little deeper to…
— Kate Morton
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Love is like a tide. When it's in, everything looks beautiful and inviting. Only when love recedes can you see the debris beneath the surface…
— Kathy Lette
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