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“When a stone is dropped into a pond, the water continues quivering even after the stone has sunk to the bottom.”

— Arthur Golden

“Be like water; soft as it is, it breaks through rocks and impenetrable surfaces.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“The snow grew deeper as we laboured down the hill. The land was a flat white pall, spread out like rumpled wool. Into the…

— Caroline Lea

“Sometimes it is given to us. One moment of clarity. One word laid down, cold and clattering, beside another. Ribbon of wet stone.”

— John Gilmore

“A rock was sticking out of the water, jagged and pointed, covered with moss--a remnant of the Ice Age. It had withstood the rains,…

— Issac Bashevis Singer

“Sometimes, in the evenings, a damp, gritty wind blew in the windows from Park Avenue, just as the rush hour traffic was thinning and…

— Donna Tartt

“...I meditated on the passage of time, and how it may be found in both a dry and a wet or gaseous state; how,…

— M.T. Anderson

“I dropped my head into my arms. I could hear the sea vibrating, the tiny hiss of displaced sand and the click of stones.…

— Elizabeth Buchan

“The world is indeed a cold, hard stone.”

— Graham Spaid

“For weeks, I’d been frozen, sealed-off; now, in the shower, I would turn up the water as hard as it would go and howl,…

— Donna Tartt

“But the river, though it flowed so slowly, had still a sense of movement and it gave one a melancholy feeling of the transitoriness…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“Time: old cold time, old sorrow, settling down in layers like silt in a pond.”

— Margaret Atwood