Lake Quote by rachel hawkins

“I have only these words that seem as if they climbed up from the bottom of a dry well.”

— Richard Jackson

“The words slid fluidly off my tongue, with only an occasional stammer. I could only attribute it to the sweep and flow of water…

— Sue Monk Kidd

“I know some words floated through my ears, but my mind refused to absorb their meaning. I just shook my head slowly as the…

— Leslie Deaton

“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

“I floated. I had been part of something immense, but now I was torn loose. Broken away from the great purpose that had used…

— Robin Hobb

“I began to recognize that there was a part of me that was stronger than I ever could have imagined. I didn't know how…

— Elizabeth Berrien

“Words that mean nothing, really, just sound intoned into vastness and darkness, little scrabbling attempts to latch onto something when we're falling.”

— Lauren Oliver

“I guess most of 'em mean well.' 'Someday you can build a boat from meaning well and see how floats.' 'Tried that. Sank with…

— Joe Abercrombie

“Sometimes she woke up speaking his name. Sometimes she wondered how it were possible to be so far from the sea and still feel…

— Jojo Moyes

“When I lost you, it was as if all the solid ground dissolved from under my feet. Look at me; I'm a half-drowned man…

— Henrik Ibsen

“There was the place where all the shouted words fall into the water. They’re too weak to make it from shore to shore. I…

— Antonia Michaelis

“It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes makes its way to the surface.”

— Virginia Woolf