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Quotes About Depth

la maldad de los hombres es muy profunda!
~ Alexandre Dumas
The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.
~ Alfred Adler
We do treat books surprisingly lightly in contemporary culture. We'd never expect to understand a piece of music on one listen, but we tend to believe we've read a book after reading it just once.
~ Ali Smith
This was what it was. The ruin of it. The depth of it. Have it once and you can have it again. That's the riddle. That's the truth.
~ Alice Hoffman
There is the outside of a story, and there is the inside of a story, he told me as we sat in his library one afternoon. One is the fruit and may be delicious, but the other is the seed.
~ Alice Hoffman
Is there more to the story?" Vincent asked. "There's more to every story," his aunt told him.
~ Alice Hoffman
What looked empty was full, much like water in a cup. What was most important was invisible to the eye.
~ Alice Hoffman
There is the outside of a story, and the inside of a story... One is the fruit and may be delicious, but the other is the seed.
~ Alice Hoffman
What she feels for him is so deep, she aches. She supposes this is what people refer to when they say the pangs of love, as if your innermost joy cannot help but cause you anguish as well.
~ Alice Hoffman
Franny was always going to be the one to break the curse. Here was her secret: she loved so deeply the depth could never be charted.
~ Alice Hoffman
She feels her love inside her as if it were as tangible as blood and bones. They'll
~ Alice Hoffman
He has no idea that being in love is bullshit. It's knowing someone down to their soul that matters. That's what love is. It's difficult and it's real and it doesn't change.
~ Alice Hoffman
He told me he wanted the chance to be in love again. He has no idea that being in love is bullshit. It's knowing someone down to their soul that matters. That's what love is. It's difficult and it's real and it doesn't change.
~ Alice Hoffman
we saw the edges of one another's souls.
~ Alice Hoffman
Who can know the heart of a man?
~ Alice McDermott
True emotional understanding has nothing to do with cheap sentimental pity.
~ Alice Miller
People's lives in Jubilee as elsewhere, were dull, simple, amazing, and unfathomable - deep caves paved with kitchen linoleum.
~ Alice Monro
Something that could not easily bu put into words and indeed might never be.
~ Alice Munro
Anecdotes don't make good stories. Dig down so far that what finally comes out is not even what you thought it was about.
~ Alice Munro
Peoples lives, in Jubilee and elsewhere, were dull, simple, amazing and unfathomable - deep caves paved with kitchen linoleum.
~ Alice Munro
She had a stare that stretched to infinity.
~ Alice Sebold
this cold woman who was not exactly cold, this rock who was not stone.
~ Alice Sebold
continuing to love with depth and tenderness honors revolution at its highest success.
~ Alice Walker
She was beginning to think that human beings had underground selves, always running, limpid, clear, even when everything in the personality appeared used up, dusty and dry.
~ Alice Walker