Surface Quotes

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I want to think quietly, calmly, spaciously, never to be interrupted, never to have to rise from my chair, to slip easily from one thing… — Virginia Woolf
Iâ€™ve always liked the feeling of traveling light; there is something in me that wants to feel I could leave wherever I am, at any… — Nicole Krauss
Knowledge can be like the skin on the surface of the water in a pond, or it can go all the way down to the… — Siobhan Dowd
As I descend the stairs, I canâ€™t help brushing my fingers along the unblemished white marble walls. So cold and beautiful. Even in the Capitol,… — Suzanne Collins
As I travel through life, I gather experiences that lie imprinted on the deepest strata of memory, and there they ferment, are transformed, and sometimes… — Isabel Allende
He was wearing a look that she found odd and compelling - that amusement that didnâ€™t seem to pass beyond the surface of his features,… — Cassandra Clare
The happiness of man is: I will. The happiness of woman is: he wills. â€˜Behold, just now the world became perfect!â€™â€”thus thinks every woman when… — Friedrich Nietzsche
It was funny to hear her voice aloud. Her thoughts and perceptions usually existed so deep inside her, they rarely made it to the surface… — Ann Brashares
Literature presents you with alternate mappings of the human experience. You see that the experiences of other people and other cultures are as rich, coherent,… — Chaim Potok
Music burst through him, perfect notes he hear rarely. Fire and ice, wind and calm, sky and earth, water and rock all fused together. Joley… — Christine Feehan
She thought of Aziza's stutter, and of what Aziza had said earlier about fractures and powerful collisions deep down and how sometimes all we see… — Khaled Hosseini
She wandered over to the enclosed range, a rather modern-looking contraption that Cook had purchased earlier in the year. "Do you know how to work… — Julia Quinn
High schoolâ€™s actually kind of boring. Itâ€™s a little bit like living in the Center. Everyone thinks they know everything about everyone else, but really… — Kiersten White
I love this quote when Valerian the King of the Nymphs says to his mate Shaye; "I am Valerian, leader of the nymphs. You may… — Gena Showalter
For a man who finds life tolerable only by staying on the surface of himself, it is natural to be satisfied with offering no more… — Paul Auster
The brain may take advice, but not the heart, and love, having no geography, knows no boundaries: weight and sink it deep, no matter, it… — Truman Capote
And that is how Goodwin problems were always fixed. Fix them on the surface but don't go to the root, always ignoring the elephant in… — Cecelia Ahern
The fact is, that what de Sade was trying to bring to the surface of the conscious mind was precisely the thing that revolted that… — Georges Bataille
Outside, the ocean was crashing, waves hitting sand, then pulling back to sea. I thought of everything being washed away, again and again. We make… — Sarah Dessen
But Mike was like a Bjork song-all happy and giddy and fun on the surface, but bubbling with turmoil and pain underneath. — Sara Shepard

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