Beads Quote by Sue Monk Kidd

I don't think there is any end to translucence. It's an endless journey, rather like playing the violin.

— Arjuna Ardagh

When all things are equal, translucence in writing is more effective than transparency, just as glow is more revealing than glare.

— James Thurber

“According to your sources if you strike life with the radical when it cracks the inside's going to glow with the translucence of red…

— Lori Lamothe

And Vishous. . . V was the worst of them. He stood by the door, staring into space. Icy before, he was glacial now,…

— J.R. Ward

“I was raised in the desert and always appreciated the way its landscape gives you a chance to see what's coming. In Florida, dangers…

— Laura van den Berg

“My fingers curl through the holes in the wicker, through the wet grass beneath it, trying to hold tight to the sharp blades of…

— Karen Russell

Disappointment Can do a couple things. It can drop you into a giant sucking sinkhole of depression, a place you have to fight to…

— Ellen Hopkins

Self-pity is... a sinkhole from which no rescuing hand can drag you because you have chosen to sink.

— Elisabeth Elliot

...our eyes locked in one of those looks that sometimes happen between strangers, when both wordlessly agree that reality contains sinkholes whose depths neither…

— Nicole Krauss

I slithered out of the sinkhole on my stomach. It was not the sexiest move I'd ever performed, but I was impressed nonetheless.

— Maggie Stiefvater

[Vestiges begins] from principles which are at variance with all sober inductive truth. The sober facts of geology shuffled, so as to play a…

— Adam Sedgwick

I fell headfirst into a sinkhole of pretty things, and the world inside your eyelids is just as big as the one outside.

— Brenna Yovanoff