Surface Quotes
1360 quotes by 1055 authors
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So when he touched me, it was deeper and slower than the wildfire, like the flow of molten rock far beneath the surface of the…
— Stephenie Meyer
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Extending his senses, Lorkin tried again to hear his mother’s surface thoughts. What he picked up seemed too out of character, however. He must be…
— Trudi Canavan
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If our lives are truly "hid with Christ in God," the astounding thing is that this hiddenness is revealed in all that we do and…
— Madeleine L'Engle
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The walls are covered -crammed- with writing. No. Not writing. They are covered with a single four-letter word that has been inscribed over and over,…
— Lauren Oliver
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Beauty is an intangible thing; can not be fixed on the surface, and the wear and tear of old age on the body cannot defeat…
— Robert Henri
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If she could have died...if she could have disappeared forever...but the solid surface of things refused to dissolve around her, and her body, her hateful…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Even his hair was bigger—a massive globe of blue-black frizz so thick that his lobster-claw horns appeared to be drowning as they tried to swim…
— Rick Riordan
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My God, he couldn't help thinking, how terrible it is to be that age, to have emotions so near the surface that the slightest turbulence…
— Richard Russo
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I'm disappointed in you, Adrian. I'm very disappointed. Reassembling myself was the first trick I learned. It didn't kill Osterman. Did you really think it…
— Alan Moore
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Piper went a little crazy. She cried out with relief and dove straight into the water. What was she thinking? She didn't take a rope…
— Rick Riordan
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He seemed a part of the mute melancholy landscape, an incarnation of it's frozen woe, with all that was warm and sentient in him fast…
— Edith Wharton
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My surface is myself. Under which to witness, youth is buried. Roots? Everybody has roots.
— William Carlos Williams
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Behind her, Jace moved out into the water with a contained grace that barely rippled the surface. Simon behind him, was splashing and cursing.
— Cassandra Clare
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So much of history is mystery. We don't know what is lost forever, what will surface again. All objects exist in a moment of time.…
— Amy Tan
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When he admitted this to me, I found myself almost annoyed. It was as if he'd hidden this part of himself in order to deceive…
— Daniel Keyes
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Concentration is a cornerstone of mindfulness practice. Your mindfulness will only be as robust as the capacity of your mind to be calm and stable.…
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
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The mole is an animal that digs passages searching for the sun. Sometimes he reaches the surface. When he looks at the sun he goes…
— Alejandro Jodorowsky
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He is spent. His mind is mercury again, its brief surge of humanity melting into an oily residue on its surface, and he no longer…
— Isaac Marion
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As Freud has shown, blunders are not the merest chance. They are the result of suppressed desires and conflicts. They are ripples on the surface…
— Joseph Campbell
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She was doing that thing some people do when they act nice and chipper and interested, while just below the surface they’re thinking really mean…
— Cecily von Ziegesar
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