Fiction Quote by Lauren Slater

“But these young people have such an intelligent, knowledgeable surface, and then the crust suddenly breaks and you look down into the depths of…

— Evelyn Waugh

“human beings were taken from the earth and don’t just consist of thin air and thoughts.”

— Eric Metaxas

“when I am out in my garden or in the fields..., I think if anything, we are just earth...We are earth, walking about, eating…

— Jane Borodale

“Beyond the Mountains of the Moon, around the curve of the earth, my shadow streched, and within me scratched and crawled small living things,…

— Cathrine Fisher

“A piece of the sky and a chunk of the earth lie lodged in the heart of every human being.”

— Thomas Moore

“The earth is not just for the clever and the strong.”

— Shūsaku Endō

“I have layer upon layer of thoughts in my head and the bottom one has nothing to grip on to.”

— Hanne Ørstavik

“...Layers of dirt heaped upon layers of old dirt- under a mountain I can’t breathe or think or react, except to erupt...”

— Steven LaVey

“Look at the earth and you think it's solid," he said. "But look deeper and you'll see it's riddled with tunnels. A warren. A…

— David Almond

“Earth or Fillory, did it even matter? What was the huge conundrum? Everywhere you looked there was so much richness, you could never exhaust…

— Lev Grossman

“. . . I had found the edge. The place where you unstrap all your fastenings to the earth, to what you are what…

— James Lee Burke