Artist Quote by Paula Rego

A boy got a splinter in his eye, and his heart turned cold. Only two people noticed. One was a witch, and she took…

— Anne Ursu

I will splinter the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter it into the winds.

— John F. Kennedy

“Peri loved her father's tales. She had grown up with them. Yet the melancholy with which they were infused pierced her soul, like a…

— Elif Shafak

I feel there's a funny little hole in me that wasn't there before, like a splinter in your finger, but this is somewhere above…

— Louise Fitzhugh

The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass available.

— Anonymous

If you want to write, find your splinter. Find the thing that pierces you and won't let you go.

— Megan McDonald

How you die out in me: down to the last worn-out knot of breath you're there, with a splinter of life.

— Paul Celan

We are nothing but a string of gut on a stick of bone riding this piece of astral soot for one piteous splinter of…

— Peter De Vries

I care not how worldly you may be: there are times when all distinctions seem like dust, and when at the graves of the…

— Donald G. Mitchell

“It's children, he thought, that give us our lives; without them we are nothing, we are here and then gone, like the dust.”

— Justin Cronin

“She said, “What’s the downstairs look like?” “Dust,” Adam replied. He used his foot to discreetly move a pair of dirty jeans, boxers still…

— Maggie Stiefvater

We come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust.

— Rumi

All the higher life forms scythed away, just like that. [ . . . ] Nothing but dust and fundamentalists.

— Terry Pratchett

“The notebook smelled the way old books do, like dust and unrealized potential.”

— Alex Flinn

“Bits of it floating in the air, he said. "It's like dust. You walk about and don't see it, don't notice it, but it's…

— Colum McCann