Beneath the surface Quote by nam le

“Here was the heart of dread. It was not fearsome. It was fetid, noxious, hopeless. A deep and exhausting misery, a crevasse so bottomless…

— Laura Tillman

“Was that what it was really like to be alive? The feeling of darkness dragging you forward? How could they live with it? And…

— Terry Pratchett

“Please tread carefully and keep away from the shadows; you are about to enter the abyss.”

— Maxim Jakubowski

“.. a circle of inner radiance, as calm as it was bright. Teach me to live that I may dread The Grave as little…

— The golden hymn book

“But the problem was that I had retreated so far into myself - shielding myself from the ghosts and memories of this place -…

— Jeremy Jackson

“It struck me again how powerful and raw our experiences around death are, how carefully we keep them concealed and yet how close to…

— Random House Canada

“And I felt fear. Fear of that bleak horizon, fear of that destiny. I felt my soul shriveling, I felt it retreating, and I…

— Milan Kundera

“I saw the void beneath the surface of the world; it threatened to pull me under.”

— Rachel Hartman

“thing. Something else had come aboard, something I’d never encountered. Something evil. Troubles I could handle. This dark, twisted thing was a whole other…

— Susan May

“I thought nothing. The surface of my mind was perfectly still. But under the surface there was a shifting and a stirring. I felt…

— Diane Setterfield

“...and I wondered what it felt like to live inside such disloyal skin.”

— Tayari Jones

“I wish we had left things undisturbed, exactly as they were and beneath whatever layers of silt had come to cover them, and yet…

— David Schmahmann