Musings Quote by Mehreen Ahmed

“The density of the butterflies in the air now gave her a sense of being underwater, plunged into a deep pond among bright fishes.”

— Barbara Kingsolver

“He felt as if he’d dived into a deep, clear lake and discovered it was a shallow, knee-deep pond. What did you do? Well,…

— Celeste Ng

You never knew about people, like you never knew how deep a pond was because all you saw was the top.

— Terry Pratchett

You throw a stone into a deep pond. Splash. The sound is big, and it reverberates throughout the surrounding area. What comes out of…

— Haruki Murakami

“A shape across space beckoned her. Her spirits sank. She thought of the other world; the temporariness of this existence. Oh! The wall, a…

— Mehreen Ahmed

“Their eyes wide open, they stared into empty nothingness. There was silence everywhere. Apart from a few twinkling of stars, masses of dark void…

— Mehreen Ahmed

“No living creature should have to feel so exposed in death, washed up on the beach in mangled meat of bloody distortion.”

— Mehreen Ahmed

To say anything about women and men without marking oneself as either feminist or anti-feminist, male-basher or apologist for men seems as impossible for…

— Deborah Tannen

“In my mind I compared Elen and Vintel. Next to Elen, Vintel appeared to be no more than a simpleminded blunderer, yet the grief…

— Catherine M. Wilson

Children often have been likened to scientists. Both ask fundamental questions about the nature of the universe. Both also ask innumerable questions that seem…

— Robert S. Siegler

I pluck up the good lissome herbs of sentences by pruning, eat them by reading, digest them by musing, and lay them up at…

— Elizabeth I

“Sitting to think of what to write will only set your ass on fire, give you headache, twist your face to look stupid, instead,…

— Michael Bassey Johnson