Stones Quote by Diane Setterfield

“Stones had been cast and glasshouses lay in shards all around us. Inside I was dead; it was time for my exterior to follow…

— John Marrs

“Tears streamed down my face. I was so happy I wanted to shout it from the rooftop. But at the same time I knew…

— Alan Partridge

“A sense of desolation settled within me: a cold, slimy stone lodged under my lungs. There was nothing happy about the woods, I thought,…

— Craig Davidson

“But down deeper, something I'd seen as solid-- not perfect, but solid-- was suddenly crumbling. I felt like I was falling to pieces right…

— Sarah Dessen

“I was watching the first raindrops falling down on the porous ground. Each drop disappeared eagerly into the sand without any hesitations. The Earth,…

— Ismaaciil C. Ubax

“That was the problem with having walls so hard and high and unscalable…When they came down, they crumbled completely, shattering into nothingness.”

— L.J. Smith

“At this very moment, the thumb of Ricardo's hovering shadow jabbed her in her left eye, revealing for all the world the shallowness of…

— Grace Paley

“Down came the dry flakes, fat enough and heavy enough to crash like nickels on stone. It always surprised him, how quiet it was.…

— Toni Morrison

“The walls are cracked and water runs upon them within threads without sound, black and glistening as blood.”

— Ayn Rand

“He was as unmoved as a wall of concrete.”

— Hugh Howey

“The sound of shuffling pages filled the room like a delicate rainstorm falling on dried leaves.”

— Brenda Pandos

“Perhaps, over the years, like most things, the walls had aged. Thinned. Worn thin by the day to day endlessness of its own existence.”

— Chesya Burke