Surface Quotes
1360 quotes by 1055 authors
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He splayed a hand out over the photographs, trembling fingers not quite touching the shiny surface, and then he turned and leaned toward me, slowly,…
— Diana Gabaldon
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Even if you couldn't see it beneath the surface, molecules were bonding, energy pushing up slowly, as something worked do hare, all alone to grow.
— Sarah Dessen
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Someday stars will wind down or blow up. Someday death will cover us all like the water of a lake and perhaps nothing will ever…
— Orson Scott Card
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In every way that counted, I was dead. Inside somewhere maybe I was screaming and weeping and howling like an animal, but that was another…
— Neil Gaiman
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As though she had entered a fable, as though she were no more than words crawling along a dry page, or as though she were…
— Salman Rushdie
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The girls said she was too cynical about love, but how could you not be? On the surface, relations between men and women were all…
— J. Courtney Sullivan
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The ones I loved fly as birds in the open sky above me. Soaring, weaving, calling to me to join them. I want so badly…
— Suzanne Collins
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Those final weeks, spanning end of summer and the beginning of another autumn, are blurred in memory, perhaps because our understanding of each other had…
— Truman Capote
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Inside that darkness, i saw rain falling on the sea. Rain softly falling on a vast sea, with no one there to see it. The…
— Haruki Murakami
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There is something called the rapture of the deep, and it refers to what happens when a deep-sea diver spends too much time at the…
— Nora Ephron
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In his eyes shone the reflection of the most beautiful planet in the Universe---a planet that is not too hot and not too cold; that…
— Stephen Hawking
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I laughed. Partly at the joke, partly at how Afghan humor never changed. Wars were waged, the Internet was invented, and a robot had rolled…
— Khaled Hosseini
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Together, we looked down at the tiny house, the sole thing on this vast, flat surface. Like the only person living on the moon. It…
— Sarah Dessen
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Society will develop a new kind of servitude which covers the surface of society with a network of complicated rules, through which the most original…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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I will meet you on the nape of your neck one day, on the surface of intention, word becoming act. We will breathe into each…
— Luke Davies
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...to slip beneath the surface and soar along the silent bottom of the sea agile and shining in water honeycombed with light.
— Ellen Meloy
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You don't look back along time but down through it, like water. Sometimes this comes to the surface, sometimes that, sometimes nothing. Nothing goes away.
— Margaret Atwood
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‎I have always been fascinated by the ocean, to dip a limb beneath its surface and know that I'm touching eternity, that it goes on…
— Lauren DeStefano
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Julius Tallow was a fool. He appeared complacent, but like a weak swimmer out of his depth, his legs were kicking frantically under the surface,…
— Jonathan Stroud
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Peeta rinses the pearl off in the water and hands it to me. “For you.†I hold it out on my palm and examine its…
— Suzanne Collins
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