Quote by Sofia Samatar Download Open image ““His exaltation left no room for the human.”” — Sofia Samatar ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“His absence was a presence. Who knew an empty space could take up so much room.” — Jacqueline Simon Gunn Copy Share Image
“He’d already endured enough guilt in his life. Quite possibly, he’d run out of space to carry any more.” — Susan May Copy Share Image
“He left slowly, as if he had to pry himself away before he something improper. A growing part of me wished he'd stayed.” — Megan Shepherd Copy Share Image
“I'd let him get under my skin, and now he had started to occupy my every thought.” — J.C. Reed Copy Share Image
“He was merely floating there in the room, insubstantial, a living man in the midst of life, dying imperceptibly on his feet, like all… — Sebastian Barry Copy Share Image
“--that person who'd taken him apart and left a piece missing that none of us could find.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“He went up to his room like a man who has been condemned to death. His mind was completely empty, and he was quite… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“He said he didn’t even exist without you. That he was an empty vessel and that you filled him and owned him until he… — Lynetta Halat Copy Share Image
“He was the same as everyone else: he carried his past inside him. There was no escape from it. No matter how hard you… — Louise Douglas Copy Share Image
“Maybe the world was like a revolving door, it occurred to him as his consciousness was fading away. And which section you ended up… — Haruki Murakami 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
“Are you just going to stand there and leak like a broken hourglass?” — 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
