“To shut your eyes is to guess nothing of blindness. Beneath your world of skies and faces and buildings exists a rawer and older world, a place where surface planes disintegrate and sounds ribbon in shoals through the air.”
Source: All the Light We Cannot See
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American writer 1973Related quotes
“Shut your eyes, there are bluer skies
For you're embraced in my heart”
"If You Can't Sleep".
Volume Two (2010)
Variant: Reader, nothing is sweeter in this sad world than the sound of someone you love calling your name. Nothing.
Source: The Tale of Despereaux (2004)
Wishful Thinking, p. 95
Variant: Vocation is the place where our deep gladness meets the world's deep need.
Source: Wishful Thinking: A Theological ABC (1973)
“Sometimes grace is a ribbon of mountain air that gets in through the cracks.”
Source: Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith
