“I feel like I've swallowed a cloudy sky”

“Even the solitude, I've actually grown to quite like… I do like the feeling of getting into my little car, knowing for the next couple of hours I'll have only the roads, the big gray sky and my daydreams for company.”

Kazuo Ishiguro book Never Let Me Go

“And I've swallowed, I grant, a beer of lot -
But I'm not so think as you drunk I am.”

J. C. Squire (1884–1958) British poet, writer, historian, and literary editor

“But I've swallowed my pride before, that's for sure. I'm practically lined with my mistakes on the inside like a bad-wallpapered bathroom.”

Barbara Kingsolver The Poisonwood Bible

“I am like a small creature swallowed whole by a monster, she thought, and the monster feels my tiny little movements inside.”

Shirley Jackson book The Haunting of Hill House

“The rains tumble down in the sky,
Young swallows have learned how to fly,
The leaves that were green are no longer so green,
And it looks like the summer is over.”

Tom Springfield (1934) English musician, songwriter and record producer

“I feel like an outsider, and I always will feel like one. I've always felt that I wasn't a member of any particular group.”

Anne Rice (1941) American writer

“My soul is like this cloudy, flaming opal ring.”

Arthur Symons (1865–1945) British poet

“Do you love him?"
Deryn swallowed, then pointed at the screen. "He makes me feel like that. Like flying.”

Scott Westerfeld book Goliath

“Sometimes, I feel like I can do anything, and, sometimes, I'm so alive, sometimes, I feel like I could zoom across the sky and, sometimes, I wanna cry.”

Michael Franti (1966) American rapper