Appearance Quote by Laura Wiess

“The way downhill, into the bottomless incredulity which is despair, was incandescent with flowering chestnut trees.”

— Elizabeth Bowen

“Sweet Sunday afternoons, beneath the chestnut-tree in our Combray garden, from which I was careful to eliminate every commonplace incident of my actual life,…

— Marcel Proust

“And it took cutting back the prettiest parts of myself to finally realize that this shell does not define me. For I am so…

— Becca Lee

“You were given a sharp, acute, uncomfortable grain..; yet in absence, in the most unlikely places, it would flower out, open, shed its scent,…

— Virginia Woolf

“Unease squirmed in my gut like a pile of worms in an occupied coffin.”

— A.J. Rose

“I sank down on the bench, stupefied, stunned by this profusion of beings without origin: everywhere blossomings, hatchings out, my ears buzzed with existence,…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“When I turned to climb the third wave, I saw at my feet a small leaf, perhaps an inch long, pointed, withered to bright…

— Geoffrey Vickers

“skin-that smooth plump sweetly fragrant sac upon which life scrawls the record of our failures and exhaustion”

— Jennifer Egan

“behind a very sturdily built and staunchly defended facade of practical, unromantic hard-headedness towards life, there was just that little pool of softness that…

— Isaac Asimov

“So sturdy and solid, so wide, so thick, none of that delicate wristy business of my imaginings. Built like an oak tree, against which…

— Lionel Shriver

“A creature--a frightfully, awful creature--was mere feet from her. Its eyes were enormous, the size of goose eggs and milky white. Its gray, slippery…

— M.L. LeGette

“We ran hunched along a subterranean corridor, discarded animal bones underfoot, the ceiling brushing our heads, past things I tried not to see—a slumped…

— Ransom Riggs