Quotes of: Floating Keyword

...at dawn, the grains of sleep turn to floating black spots, then out of focus the world tilts, and the cat scratches at the door...

A Familiar Rain

If you can't imagine it, think clumsy silence. Think bits and pieces of floating despair. And drowning in a train.

The Book Thief

I floated like driftwood in the ocean. I wasn’t worried about sharks, because my bathtub is much too shallow.

99 Cents For Some Nonsense

The days float on like a feather in the wind, but at the end of the week, I’m still a chicken. Taste my truth.

99 Cents For Some Nonsense

And unbidden, floating into consciousness came the truth of his utter wretchedness. Even the very earth seemed to cry out in pain. Hodburn Wood

Hodburn Wood

I kept reaching for my muses, my wandering muses, floating on clouds filled with their passions.” (Muses of Wandering Passions, p. 64)

Muses of Wandering Passions

You would sail the kitchen cabinet into the night and anchor the wood to the seafloor. You would drown with the diamond, not float with the ring.

NAP 1.3

Only the ship is made of books, its sails thousands of overlapping pages, and the sea it floats upon is dark black ink.

The Night Circus

Something my mom likes to say when she's up on her equal-opportunity soapbox floats through my head:

Like No Other

Her purse was a weight, ballast; it tethered her to the earth as her mind floated away.

Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

I want to tie one thousand balloons around my neck and float up while slowly dying of happiness.

tao lin's third novel

Snow floated down every once in a while, but it was frail snow, like a memory fading into the distance.

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Am I blind?" Will's voice floated out of the darkness, tinged with annoyance. "I'm not going to be at all pleased if you've blinded me, Henry.

Clockwork Angel

The car doesn’t so much drive as float above the road, like we’re making our way to Sydney in a hovercraft.

Alice in Wonderland

Her happiness floated like waves of ocean along the coast of her life. She found lyrics of her life in his arms but she never sung her song.

Santosh Kalwar

'TMZ' took the illusion of privacy away. Now the paranoid star just assumes someone is always there. Decoy cars and false itineraries are floated to throw 'TMZ' off the scent.

Stephen Rodrick

Anytime I float by a window, I can tell whether the outside is lit or if it's dark outside. When we're working it's just day for us with the lights on inside.

Kevin A. Ford

When people think of someone being prolific, it's like, 'He's got a vault with 5,000 songs in it,' or something, but I just kind of pick them out of the air when they float by.

Mac DeMarco

There are intangible realities which float near us, formless and without words; realities which no one has thought out, and which are excluded for lack of interpreters.

Natalie Clifford Barney

What's funny is I probably still have some calligraphy business cards floating out in the world, and I can't wait for someone to call me in a month or something, and say, 'Can you do these for my son's Bar Mitzvah?'

Meghan Markle

Three-dimensional results are important to me. I did once spend some time just writing, and floating around, and I lost my mind a little bit. I wasn't so good at that.

Dave Eggers