Beneath Quote by Salman Rushdie

Music, love, death. Certainly a triangle of sorts; maybe even an eternal one. "The only people who can see the whole picture," he murmured,…

— Salman Rushdie

“The aura of his soul. She’d seen them before when she’d guided the dead. But she’d never seen one quite like this, darkness and…

— Eve Silver

“She puts her mittened hands on the sides of my hood. “Okay, then remember: ‘Science is nothing but perception’—that’s Plato. He was all about…

— Jennifer Longo

“She stood on the edge of night, that sliver of gray between darkness and dawn, that razor-thin line separating the first part of her…

— Anne Blankman

“It partook ... of eternity ... there is a coherence in things, a stability; something, she meant, is immune from change, and shines out…

— Virginia Woolf

“One step beyond that boundary line which resembles the line dividing the living from the dead lies uncertainty, suffering, and death. And what is…

— Leo Tolstoy

“We see only a part of the surface of things. The rest will be forever hidden from us, to be appreciated for its felt…

— Richard Taylor

“There is this strangeness of a life story having no shape—or more accurately, nothing but its present—until it has its ending; and then suddenly…

— James Wood

“Deep down under where his heart resided, strangled up in thorny vines of guilt, anger, fear and longing, there lay something deeper in him,…

— Carol Oates

“She had learnt a painful lesson, she thought – that as they die, the ones we love, we lose our witnesses, our watchers, those…

— Anne Rice

“...silently gazing beneath the stars. And in that fall of light from heaven to earth perhaps all our stories were told, all actions of…

— Niall Williams

“Behold,' said the Voice, 'earthly beauty. It is nothing but seeming, for to the uninstructed eye the world appears fruitful and sweet, yet in…

— Maria McCann