Said Ada Quote by Vladimir Nabokov

“I think we endure the banal as a way of skirting around the bane.”

— David Levithan

“I was for anything that didn’t involve traipsing through the forest like a Sondheim character.”

— Carey Corp

“Hodges has read there are wells in Iceland so deep you can drop a stone down them and never hear the splash. He thinks…

— Stephen King

“Truth, as Bergson knew, is a hard apple, whether one is throwing it or catching it.”

— Donald Barthelme

“Raffin and Bann stood together, propped against the wall and against each other, half dozing. At one point, Raffin, not knowing he had one…

— Kristin Cashore

“You do not go for a rhine-stone when you can go for the rhino.”

— Anyaele Sam Chiyson

“And I knew it was true, that my words were made of stones, that they would last and I would climb them.”

— Amanda Davis

“But then my attention was ripped away from him as, with another blast of the war horn, she appeared: the Lady Achillea, lit by…

— Lesley Livingston

“She grumbled a slew of nasty words and paced, her black boots clunking against the uneven floorboards. Pirate Lord indeed. This was the best…

— Sarah J. Maas

“One of the Obsidians to fight alongside Ragnar at the walls of Agea, Wulfgar was with the Sons of Ares that freed me from…

— Pierce Brown

“There is no oneness in the forest unless it is planted as such.”

— Celestine McMullen Allen

“I wanted to be empty like an overturned pitcher. But I was full like a stone.”

— Jonathan Safran Foer