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• She fell into a deep pool of sticky water, which eventually closed over her head. She saw nothing and heard nothing but a faint booming sound, which was the sound of the sea rolling over her head. While all her tormentors thought that she was dead, she was not dead, but curled up at the bottom of the sea.

  Virginia Woolf

  Sea, Water, Sound

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.299, Delphi Classics

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• Because I can't hit bottom, I can't be saved.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Because I Can, Saved, I Can

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Fight Club”, p.22, Random House

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• Hello, darling. Sorry about that. Sorry about the bony elbows, sorry we lived here, sorry about the scene at the bottom of the stairwell and how I ruined everything by saying it out loud. Especially that, but I should have known. You see, I take the parts that I remember and stitch them back together to make a creature that will do what I say or love me back.

  Richard Siken

  Sorry, Should Have, Together

  Richard Siken, “Litany in Which Certain Things Are Crossed Out”

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• Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deep trust, a free act of love—but sometimes it was so hard to love. Sometimes my heart was sinking so fast with anger, desolation and weariness, I was afraid it would sink to the very bottom of the Pacific and I would not be able to lift it back up.

  Yann Martel

  Letting Go, Heart, Opening Up

  Yann Martel (2012). “Life Of Pi, Illustrated”, p.300, Canongate Books

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• Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it; but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Time, Eternity Of Life, Fishing

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.64, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Once upon a time, when men and women hurtled through the air on metal wings, when they wore webbed feet and walked on the bottom of the sea, learning the speech of whales and the songs of the dolphins, when pearly-fleshed and jewelled apparitions of Texan herdsmen and houris shimmered in the dusk on Nicaraguan hillsides, when folk in Norway and Tasmania in dead of winter could dream of fresh strawberries, dates, guavas and passion fruits and find them spread next morning on their tables, there was a woman who was largely irrelevant, and therefore happy.

  A. S. Byatt

  Dream, Song, Morning

  FaceBook post by A.S. Byatt from Aug 27, 2011

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• My friend Madea has "attitude" that comes with wisdom. Back in our teens and twenties, we thought we knew everything and made all those foolish mistakes. Then, when we got a little older, at thirty, we started getting these flashes of light, revelations of what a great and lucky thing it is that we didn't get caught doing those stupid things back then. Around forty, if we are lucky, we stop lying to ourselves. Fifty and above, we've run out of patience for foolishness. Take me to the bottom line.

  Tyler Perry

  Running, Attitude, Mistake

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• Humiliation, by the way, is a truly terrible emotion. It's at the bottom of the pile.

  Francine Pascal

  Way, Emotion, Terrible

  Francine Pascal (2012). “Fearless: Fearless; Sam; Run”, p.53, Simon and Schuster

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• ...the men of the Ulysses had no need to stand in shame...many had found, or were finding, that the point of no return was not necessarily the edge of the precipice: it could be the bottom of the valley, the beginning of the long climb up the far slope, and when a man had once begun that climb he never looked back to that other side.

  Alistair Maclean

  Men, Long, Return

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• And bottom line, without John by her side, everything seemed to be just a big, resounding meh.

  J.R. Ward

  Lines, Sides, Bigs

  J. R. Ward (2012). “Lover Reborn: Number 10 in series”, p.115, Hachette UK

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• Love one another, Jesus said. Sometimes it took a lifetime to learn how. Sometimes it took someone to hit rock bottom to make someone reach up and grasp hold and be lifted from the mire to stand on a firm foundation.

  Francine Rivers

  Jesus, Rocks, Foundation

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• Frankly, the image of his father wearing bell-bottoms, smoking a joint, and calling his mother a “totally groovy chick” was wrong on so many levels he wanted to erase the whole thing from his memory

  Julie James

  Mother, Memories, Father

  Julie James (2012). “About That Night”, p.242, Penguin

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• After all, when a stone is dropped into a pond, the water continues quivering even after the stone has sunk to the bottom.

  Arthur Golden

  Fear, Water, Ponds

  "Memoirs of a Geisha". Book by Arthur Golden, September 27, 1997.

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• Do you know how wizards like to be buried?" "Yes!" "Well, how?" Granny Weatherwax paused at the bottom of the stairs. "Reluctantly.

  Terry Pratchett

  Wizards, Stairs, Buried

  Terry Pratchett (2012). “The Wit and Wisdom of Discworld”, p.22, Harper Collins

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• When Drustan reached the bottom step, she flung herself into his arms. He swung her up into his embrace and kissed her hungrily. By the time he'd finished, she was gasping for air and laughing. "My turn?" Dageus teased.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Air, Laughing, Arms

  Karen Marie Moning (2012). “The Highlander Series 7-Book Bundle”, p.964, Dell

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• ... is it truly possible to steal a life, if... the Self is eternal and cannot die? Should this be so, then one who 'murders' does no more than transgress against the will of another, whose choice it is to live. At bottom, a murderer offends not against the body, but against the spirit.

  Ki Longfellow

  Self, Choices, Doe

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• I like a girl with a substantial bottom,' said Renoir, drawing in the air the size bottom he preferred.

  Christopher Moore

  Girl, Drawing, Air

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• “There’s my baby!” I cried, quite carried away. “There’s my Poochiekins!” Ammit ran at me and leaped into my arms, nuzzling me with his rough snout. “My lord Osiris!” Disturber lost the bottom of his scroll again, which unraveled around his legs. “This is an outrage!” “Sadie,” Dad said firmly, “please do not refer to the Devourer of Souls as Poochiekins.”

  Rick Riordan

  Baby, Dad, Osiris

  "The Serpent's Shadow". Book by Rick Riordan, May 2, 2012.

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• In the deepest places, where physical norms collapse under the crushing water, bodies still fall softly through the dark, days after their vessels have capsized. They decay on their long journey down. Nothing will hit the black sand at the bottom of the world but algae-covered bones.

  China Mieville

  Crush, Fall, Dark

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• The bottom half of the page had descended into a doodle of a tiny man giving the middle finger to a giant, angry eagle with razor-sharp talons. Beneath it, the caption: To Mock a Killing Bird.

  Seth Grahame-Smith

  Men, Eagles, Giving

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• The nature of love had totally escaped her until now. She had thought that if you lost it, you could never get it back, like a stone thrown down a well. But it was like the water at the bottom of the well, there when you can't even see it, shifting in the dark.

  Alice Hoffman

  Dark, Water, Stones

  Alice Hoffman (2009). “The Story Sisters: A Novel”, p.324, Broadway Books

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• Never in her life – she could swear it from the bottom of her soul – had she ever intended to do wrong; yet these hard judgments had come. Whatever her sins, they were not sins of intention, but of inadvertence, and why should she have been punished so persistently?

  Thomas Hardy

  Soul, Sin, Judgment

  Thomas Hardy (2007). “Tess of the D'urbervilles”, p.455, Reprint Services Corporation

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• True prayer is only another name for the love of God. Its excellence does not consist in the multitude of our words; for our Father knoweth what things we have need of before we ask Him. The true prayer is that of the heart, and the heart prays only for what it desires. To pray, then is to desire -- but to desire what God would have us desire. He who asks what he does not from the bottom of his heart desire, is mistaken in thinking that he prays.

  Francois Fenelon

  Prayer, Father, Heart

  Francois Fenelon (2014). “Spiritual Progress”, p.18, Lulu.com

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• We will meet; and there we may rehearse most obscenely and courageously.

  William Shakespeare

  Dream, Night, May

  "Shakespeare's Comedy of A Midsummer-night's Dream".

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• Where do you get your ideas? people ask. Sometimes they’re at the bottoms of cups of tea. Sometimes they’re lurking in my shower. Sometimes they’re waiting patiently in glass cases in museums.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Museums, Glasses, Ideas

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