Surface Quotes

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Letâ€™s hope sheâ€™s like the others, who look only at the surface. Letâ€™s hope sheâ€™d never think that a girl with black-velvet eyes and cut-glass… — Franny Billingsley
I should hate to be a regular girl with a sugar-plum voice. I should hate to have swan-like lashes, and a thick, sooty neck. I… — Franny Billingsley
I learned that just beneath the surface there's another world, and still different worlds as you dig deeper. I knew it as a kid, but… — David Lynch
I think we can learn a lot about a person in the very moment that language fails them. In the very moment they they have… — Anna Deavere Smith
A sense of wrongness, of fraught unease, as if long nails scraped the surface of the moon, raising the hackles of the soul. — China Mieville
Somewhere, deep within her, surfaces a tiny clockwork submarine. There are times when you can only take the next step. And then another. — William Gibson
Love brings up our unresolved feelings . One day we are feeling loved , and the next day we are suddenly afraid to trust love… — John Gray
She was like a lone angel floating above the surface of the earth, laughing with delight because she could fly but crying out of loneliness. — Markus Zusak
She closed her hands around his and shut her eyes, imagining their bed cut free of this strange prison, floating through space or on the… — Cassandra Clare
The water is calm, but the currents pull beneath the surface. Though they canâ€™t be seen, they have the power to drag cats to their… — Erin Hunter
All great fighting is the same, Eragon, even as all great warriors are the same. Past a certain point, it does not matter whether you… — Christopher Paolini
In the end, living is defined by dying. Book- ended by oblivion, we are caught in the vice of terror, squeezed to bursting by the… — Bernard Beckett
Her fine high forehead sloped gently up to where her hair, bordering it like an armorial shield, burst into lovelocks and waves and curlicues of… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
As Danton sees it, the most bizarre aspect of Camille's character is his desire to scribble over every blank surface; he sees a guileless piece… — Hilary Mantel
If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe, then man would have only four years of life left. No more bees, no more… — Albert Einstein
In a few hours, Iâ€™m going to be banished to the surface, my belongings raffled off as novelty items and my living space given to… — Kim Harrison
Either that boy is the sanest creature on Earth, he thought, or he is so disturbed that our tests cannot even begin to scratch the… — Eoin Colfer
In our absence, the violet early evening light pours in the bay window, filling the still room like water poured into a glass. The glass… — Marya Hornbacher
My tablecloth was missing in action and long, jagged scratches covered the table's surface.The scratches looked suspiciously like letters. I climbed on a chair and… — Ilona Andrews
But there is nothing enduring in the world, and therefore even joy in the second minute is already not as acute as in the first;… — Nikolai Gogol

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