Loud Quotes - Page 27

• Talking out loud to fictional characters is just the tip of the iceberg.

  Jodi Picoult

  Character, Talking, Tip Of The Iceberg

  Jodi Picoult, Samantha van Leer (2013). “Between the Lines”, p.57, Simon and Schuster

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• You can have a silence full of words. A lute retains, in its bowl, the notes it has played. The viol, in its strings, holds a concord. A shriveled petal can hold its scent, a prayer can rattle with curses; an empty house, when the owners have gone out, can still be loud with ghosts.

  Hilary Mantel

  Prayer, Silence, House

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• There is something so intimate about saying the truth out loud. There is something so intimate about hearing the truth said. There is something so intimate about sharing the truth, even if you are not entirely sure what it means.

  David Levithan

  Mean, Hearing, Intimate

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2014). “Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List”, p.17, Egmont UK

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• Oh dear,"cried Rhonda just then, for Mr. Benedict, awash in strong emotion, has gone to sleep.with a sudden loud snore he toppled forward into the attentive arms of Rhonda and Number Two, who eased him to the floor. "What's wrong with him?" Constance asked. "He has narcolepsy," said Kate. "He steals a lot?" "That's kleptomania," Sticky said. "Mr. Benedict sleeps a lot.

  Trenton Lee Stewart

  Strong, Sleep, Two

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• I killed you once", the Lord Ruler said, turning back to Kelsier. "You tried", Kelsier replied, his voice loud and firm, carrying across the square. "But you can't kill me, Lord Tyrant. I represent that thing you've never been able to kill no matter how hard you try. I am hope.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Squares, Tyrants, Voice

  Brandon Sanderson (2010). “Mistborn: The Final Empire”, p.703, Macmillan

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• Don't judge me because I'm quiet. No one plans a murder out loud.

  Darynda Jones

  Judging, Don't Judge Me, Quiet

  Darynda Jones (2012). “Fourth Grave Beneath My Feet”, p.255, Macmillan

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• Phaedra shook her head. “If your people mean no offense, they should not speak their thoughts out loud in front of their children, Tesadora. Because it will be their children who come to slaughter us one day, all because of careless words passed down by their elders who meant no harm.

  Melina Marchetta

  Children, Mean, People

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• We have to get the Diamond. And Cesare’s head.” They looked at me. “Why the head?” Doolittle asked. “Because it’s easy to carry and I can torture it for a long time.” And I didn’t just say it out loud, did I? I checked their faces. Yep, I did.

  Ilona Andrews

  Long, Faces, Easy

  Ilona Andrews (2009). “Magic Strikes”, p.177, Penguin

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• Sister Monica Joan murmured, as though to herself, but loud enough to be heard by all, "How perfectly charming. Old enough to know it all, and young enough to blush. Perfectly charming.

  Jennifer Worth

  Know It All, Enough, Charming

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• I’ve always been a dreamer, have always believed in the power of love and art and loud, life-affirming rock and roll, but, for the first time, I’m starting to have doubts. Can a dream even exist in reality? Or does it turn to stone the second it leaves your mind?

  Pete Wentz

  Dream, Art, Reality

  Pete Wentz, James Montgomery (2013). “Gray”, p.35, Simon and Schuster

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• The future is not as loud as war, but it is relentless. It has a terrible fury all its own.

  Lauren Beukes

  War, Relentless, Terrible

  "The Shining Girls". Book by Lauren Beukes, 2013.

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• What I feel for you can’t be conveyed in phrasal combinations; It either screams out loud or stays painfully silent but I promise — it beats words. It beats worlds. I promise

  Katherine Mansfield

  Love, Promise, World

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• Dad!" he shouted, loud enough to make my ears ring. "Dad! You need to get down here!" (Derek) Chloe held open the door and whispered to me, "I could say he's not always like this, but I'd be lying.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Dad, Lying, Doors

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• Shut up, me" Leo said out loud. "What?" Piper asked. "Nothing," he said. "Long night. I think I'm hallucinating. It's cool.

  Rick Riordan

  Night, Thinking, Long

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• Throughout the hours of the night, though there had been few to hear it, the whole sky had been loud with the singing of these constellations.

  Thornton Wilder

  Night, Sky, Singing

  Thornton Wilder (1956). “A Thornton Wilder Trio: The Cabala, The Bridge of San Luis Rey, The Woman of Andros”

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• The stillness of the calm is awful. His voice begins to grow strange and portentous. He feels it in him like something swallowed too big for the esophagus. It keeps up a sort of involuntary interior humming in him, like a live beetle. His cranium is a dome full of reverberations. The hollows of his very bones are as whispering galleries. He is afraid to speak loud, lest he be stunned; like the man in the bass drum.

  Herman Melville

  Men, Voice, Whispering

  Herman Melville (1849). “Mardi: And a Voyage Thither”, p.21

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• The first sentence of the truth is always the hardest. Each of us had a first sentence, and most of us found the strength to say it out loud to someone who deserved to hear it. What we hoped, and what we found, was that the second sentence of the truth is always easier than the first, and the third sentence is even easier than that. Suddenly you are speaking the truth in paragraphs, in pages. The fear, the nervousness, is still there, but it is joined by a new confidence. All along, you've used the first sentence as a lock. But now you find that it's the key.

  David Levithan

  Keys, Locks, Pages

  David Levithan (2014). “Two Boys Kissing”, p.34, Egmont UK

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• I didn't know how to explain what I meant; sociopathy wasn't just being emotionally deaf, it was being emotionally mute, too. I felt like the characters on our muted TV, waving their hands and screaming and never saying a word out loud.

  Dan Wells

  Character, Hands, Just Being

  Dan Wells (2010). “I Am Not A Serial Killer”, p.43, Macmillan

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• Their goal was in sight. They had a Titan with a very loud kitten on their side. That had to count for something.

  Rick Riordan

  Sight, Goal, Sides

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• Gansey leaned back, head thrown to the side, drunken and silly with happiness. "I love this car," he said, loud enough to be heard over the engine. "I should buy four more of them. I'll just open the door of one to fall in to the other. One can be a living room, one can be my kitchen, I'll sleep in one..." "And the fourth? Butler's pantry?" Blue shouted. "Don't be so selfish. Guest room.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Selfish, Silly, Fall

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• That's the first time I've ever said those words out loud, and now I hear how strange they are. How many young men fear that there is a monster instead them? People are supposed to fear others, not themselves.

  Veronica Roth

  Men, People, Firsts

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• I'm fine," [her dad] said gently. "Back on the horse, Cath.' 'What's the horse?' she sighed, watching him pull on a South High hoodie. 'Jogging? Working too much?' 'Living,' he said, a little too loud. 'Life's the horse.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Horse, Dad, Jogging

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• Saying no to loud people gives you the resources to say yes to important opportunities.

  Seth Godin

  Business, Opportunity, People

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• You have to speak your dream out loud.

  Kelly Corrigan

  Motivational, Change, Dream

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• I like money. It's fun to fold and stack and smell and look at. It's just plain fun to count money, and I often do it in a loud falsetto while wearing nothing but a captain's hat and a coin changer.

  Dennis Miller

  Money, Fun, Smell

  Dennis Miller (2001). “I Rant, Therefore I Am”, p.20, Crown Forum

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