Laughter Quote by Rachel Joyce

“Drifting on the black, rippling surface were fingers. Thumbs. Dozens of them. Hundreds, floating like dead fish in a dynamited pond. I saw part…

— Glen Hirshberg

“Manon Blackbeak stood on a cliff beside the snow-swollen river, eyes closed as the damp wind bit her face. There were few sounds she…

— Sarah J. Maas

“Carefully, the girl skimmed her fingers across her mother's knee. It was smooth; the skin had closed across the tiny wounds like the surface…

— Ursula Hegi

“Finally I saw something. Out in the distance, there was a bright and shiny rippling pillar in the water. It continued to move back…

— Meaghan Rauscher

“Lying in their field above the sea, watching the sun go down and the darkness creep over the field so that they were wrapped…

— Julia Green

“I stood at the grassy edge and tentatively dipped my toe into the water. I watched the ripple spread and break the perfect reflection…

— Erica Sehyun Song

“Were they laughing at me? I forced myself to block them from my mind, to concentrate on the lake, the water. What were they…

— Lisa Tawn Bergren

“WE stowed the wheels, uncapped the sledge-runners, put on our sis, and took off -- down, north, onward, into that silent vastness of fire…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“The river had no qualms about the colour of his skin. She would embrace anyone who came to her and keep them in her…

— Anand Neelakantan

“At their very feet had been the river. The boat came breasting out of the mist, and in they stepped. All new things in…

— Eudora Welty

“He woke early the next morning. It was still cool, but he opened the window and, leaning on the ledge, looked down at the…

— Rupert Thomson

“I met someone.' And the leaves fell from the trees, landing to float in the calm black waters.”

— Leslye Walton