Quote by Kaitlyn Davis

“That may have been how they survived, Kira realizes: thanks to their ability not to fall apart at the same time.”

— Fredrik Backman

“Today, however, she didn't go looking for urchins or broken shells. She simply walked to the end of the earth and stood a while.”

— John Burnside

“He picked up a pebble and threw it onto the solid lake where it bounded and rebounded on the surface of the ice.”

— Alexia Praks

“I could feel a small polished stone sinking through the darkest waters of my heart. All those deep convoluted channels and passageways, and yet…

— Haruki Murakami

“She felt as if her life had been built on a sheet of ice as thin as paper, and now the ice was beginning…

— Cassandra Clare

“She felt, beneath her feet, the shifting of the planks she'd laid across the quicksand of that other life. She'd thought she could escape…

— Laini Taylor

“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

“Sand And she frequently forgot, That her body (all our bodies) is a house of sand. That it had shattered and is shattering still.…

— Han Kang

“It was as if she had reached into her own pocket and discovered a small pebble, as hard as a diamond, that she had…

— Eowyn Ivey

“She felt bones in her cheek shatter with the impact.”

— Ryan Seek

“Her knees quaked, but she swallowed the blood in her mouth and took another breath. She had not imagined it would end like this.…

— Sarah J. Maas