Surface Quotes

1360 quotes by 1044 authors

Cole grasped a handful of vials and syringes with one hand and dumped them on the island in front of me. They rolled and whirled… — Maggie Stiefvater
There was just one moon. That familiar, yellow, solitary moon. The same moon that silently floated over fields of pampas grass, the moon that rose--a… — Haruki Murakami
The past is dead and buried. But I know now that buried things have a way of rising to the surface when one least expects… — Dan Simmons
Since early morning he had been swimming in the river, in company with his friends the ducks. And when the ducks stood on their heads… — Kenneth Grahame
You are so terribly nimble, so clever. I distrust your cleverness. You make a wonderful pattern, everything is in its place, it looks convincingly clear,… — Anais Nin
Now, the world is more than it seems to be. You know this, of course, because you read stories. You understand that there is the… — Anne Ursu
When we are in love, our love is too big a thing for us to be able altogether to contain it within ourselves. It radiates… — Marcel Proust
That's the strangest thing about this life, about being in the ministry. People change the subject when they see you coming. And then sometimes those… — Marilynne Robinson
How big are souls anyway?" asked Coraline. The other mother sat down at the kitchen table and leaned against the back wall, saying nothing. She… — Neil Gaiman
One felt as if there was an enormous well behind them. Filled up with ages of memory and long, slow, steady thinking; but their surface… — J.R.R. Tolkien
What you encounter, recognize or discover depends to a large degree on the quality of your approach. Many of the ancient cultures practiced careful rituals… — John O'Donohue
Two hundred miles from the surface of the earth there is no gravity. The laws of motion are suspended. You could turn somersaults slowly slowly,… — Jeanette Winterson
She understood. They were plastic flowers of wordsâ€”but they looked nice on the surface. — Anne Ursu
Of the Surface of Things In my room, the world is beyond my understanding; But when I walk I see that it consists of three… — Wallace Stevens
I sit back on my bed cross-legged and find myself rubbing the smooth iridescent surface of the pearl back and forth against my lips. For… — Suzanne Collins
I was the place where you anchored. I was the deep water where you could be weightless. I was the surface where you saw your… — Jeanette Winterson
It's easy to look back and see it, and it's easy to give the advice. But the sad fact is, most people don't look beneath… — Wendelin Van Draanen
The world was reduced to the surface of her skin and her inner self was safe from all bitterness. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
My life and most people's lives are a series of little miracles -- strange coincidences which spring from uncontrollable impulses and give rise to incomprehensible… — Colin Clark
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

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