Quote by Sofia Samatar Download Open image ““Are you just going to stand there and leak like a broken hourglass?”” — Sofia Samatar ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“I think I have grown accustomed to the glass and I am terrified that when it breaks, when I am alone, I will spill… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“My eyes break open. Two shattered windows filling my mouth with glass.” — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“You looked ridiculous walking around the city carrying an empty wineglass. I don't care to be associated with a drunk. Particularly one who damages… — Danielle L. Jensen Copy Share Image
“I love ritual and repetition. Without them, I would be a balloon with a slow leak.” — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“Funny thing about glass. When you broke the shit up, it got pissed and bit back.” — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
“when they’re about to hang you, ask for a glass of water. You never know what might happen before they bring it.” — Andrzej Sapkowski Copy Share Image
“Once I get under the water, however, I can't hold it in anymore. With a sob, I collapse on the tile floor. I'm not… — Erin Hayes Copy Share Image
“And here you see me working out, as cheerfully and thankfully as I may, my doom of sharing in the glass a constant change… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“If I fall in, I’m going to drown. The weights upon me are too heavy to stay afloat. My only option is to sink.” — Katie McGarry Copy Share Image
“I wrenched open the windows. I stood while the cold air poured around my face like dark water, as if I was a rock… — Sue Woolfe Copy Share Image
“Do you want me to sit in a corner and rust, or just fall apart where I'm standing?” — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“The silence. End of all poetry, all romances. Earlier, frightened, you began to have some intimation of it: so many pages had been turned,… — Sofia Samatar Copy Share Image
“Once you have built something - something that takes all your passion and will - it becomes more precious to you than your own… — Sofia Samatar Copy Share Image
“It was “a shape to make men weep,” wrote Firdred of Bain when he first saw it: “exactly the shape of a desecrated sea.” — Sofia Samatar Copy Share Image
“There is no end to writing, I think, no end to the project of rescue." --Sofia Samatar, from "Fallow," in her collection, Tender” — Sofia Samatar Copy Share Image
“All through my journey his stories had fallen like snow. He was as full of them as a library with unmarked shelves. He was… — Sofia Samatar Copy Share Image
“Long is the journey homeward, Weary and worn are we. Oh, if I fall behind, my love, Will you look back for?” — Sofia Samatar Copy Share Image
“But preserve your mistrust of the page, for a book is a fortress, a place of weeping, the key to a desert, a river… — Sofia Samatar Copy Share Image
“People talked about loneliness as if it were something alive and it could get you. But loneliness is something dead, it's deadness. Lonely people… — Sofia Samatar Copy Share Image
“The word for 'book' in all the known languages of the earth is vallon, 'chamber of words'...” — Sofia Samatar Copy Share Image
“There is enough cruelty in the world," she told me softly, "to justify all the music ever made.” — Sofia Samatar Copy Share Image
“The night sky was distended in my dreams, sinking to earth with the weight of destructive glory behind it. In one of those dreams… — Sofia Samatar Copy Share Image
