Quote by Melanie Thernstrom

“All he feels is the bored emptiness of the flat, flat world. And there’s no one who bores him more than himself.”

— David Levithan

“And there he sat, looking outwardly composed, and all she could think of was that pond. Because something about him, something in his eyes,…

— Priscilla Glenn

“Of people, of places, surfaces don't interest me. Depths do.”

— Sadia Hakim

“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

“On the surface he might be callused, but looking through a creative lens, I see layers and textures. He reminds me of a folding…

— Katie Kacvinsky

“This is the only way another creature can be known: on the surface, that's where there is depth.”

— John Banville

“I was constantly amazed by the depths of my own shallowness. Wait. Could a shallow person have depths?”

— Sariah Wilson

“He knew suddenly that nobody, living upon the remotest, most barren crag in the ocean, could complain of a dull landscape so long as…

— T.H. White

“For those who wander in the depths, there is nothing deep!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“Depth, he decided; as if one were looking into the clear water of the river, down to the bottom, where things might lurk which…

— Lois Lowry

“...the sea offers the only broad horizon, and the immense he saw now gave him a peculiar, an indescribable thrill. He felt suddenly elated.…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“He understood the impact of his question, his words falling like stones into a shadowy lake—on the surface things return to normal, but in…

— Shades of Gray