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• Gerry?' Laurel had to strain to hear thought the noise on the other end of the line. 'Gerry? Where are you?' 'London. A phone booth on Fleet Street.' 'The city still has working phone booths?' 'It would appear so. Unless this is the Tardis, in which case I'm in serious trouble.

  Kate Morton

  Phones, Cities, Lines

  Kate Morton (2012). “The Secret Keeper”, p.272, Pan Macmillan

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• That is the earth, he thought. Not a globe thousands of kilometers around, but a forest with a shining lake, a house hidden at the crest of a hill, high in the trees, a grassy slope leading upwards from the water, fish leaping and birds strafing to take the bugs that lived at the border between water and sky. Earth was the constant noise of crickets, and winds, and birds

  Orson Scott Card

  Lakes, Wind, Sky

  Orson Scott Card (2011). “Ender's Game: Ender Series”, p.127, Hachette UK

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• There is little or no magic about them, except the ordinary everyday sort which helps them to disappear quietly and quickly when large stupid folk like you and me come blundering along, making a noise like elephants which they can hear a mile off.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Stupid, Elephants, Magic

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.8, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When you're scared - and I mean really scared, not just hearing a noise in the night, or standing toe to toe with someone twice your size who wants to pound you into the earth - it feels as if you're being injected with darkness. It's like black water as cold as ice settling in your body where your blood and marrow used to be, pushing every other feeling out as it fills you from your feet to your scalp. It leaves you with nothing.

  Alexander Gordon Smith

  Fear, Mean, Night

  Alexander Gordon Smith (2010). “Escape from Furnace 2: Solitary”, p.20, Faber & Faber

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• Quietly, Macey went through her options. Even though the masked men were asking for cell phones, the gunmen were making so much noise that she was sure someone had already called 911. The obvious exits were blocked, and the elevators had no doubt been disabled. The men moved with confidence and order, but they weren’t trying to be quiet. There was nothing covert at all about this operation. Unlike the boy beside her.

  Ally Carter

  Boys, Men, Phones

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• Fear nothing! Have peace until the morning! Heed no nightly noises!

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Morning, Fear Nothing, Heed

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.98, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The only sadnesses that are dangerous and unhealthy are the ones that we carry around in public in order to drown them out with the noise.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Sadness, Order, Dangerous

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2001). “Letters to a Young Poet”

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• I have read that there are two fears that cannot be trained out of us: the startle reaction upon hearing an unexpected noise, and vertigo. I would like to add a third, to wit, the rapid and direct approch of a known killer

  Yann Martel

  Two, Hearing, Add

  Yann Martel (2009). “Life of Pi”, p.292, Vintage Canada

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• I have a strange illusion quite often. I think I've become deaf. I have to make a little noise to prove I'm not. I clear my throat to show myself that everything is normal. It's like the little Japanese girl they found in the ruins of Hiroshima. Everything dead; and she was singing to her doll.

  John Fowles

  Girl, Thinking, Singing

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• I understand now that boundaries between noise and sound are conventions. All boundaries are conventions, waiting to be transcended. One may transcend any convention if only one can first conceive of doing so.

  David Mitchell

  Waiting, Sound, Atlas

  "Fictional character: Robert Frobisher". "Cloud Atlas", 2012.

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• His eyes made a slow scan of my closet doors, which were cracked. “I thought I heard something.” “Yeah, well, guess what? I’m a living, breathing person, and every now and then I make noise!

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Eye, Doors, Breathing

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2011). “Silence”, p.277, Simon and Schuster

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• After some while Bilbo became impatient. "Well, what is it?" he said. "The answer's not a kettle boiling over, as you seem to think by the noise you are making.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Thinking, Boiling Over, Answers

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.46, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• And too much informayshun can drive a man mad. Too much informayshun becomes just Noise. And it never, never stops.

  Patrick Ness

  Men, Mad, Too Much

  Patrick Ness (2008). “The Knife of Never Letting Go”, Candlewick Press (MA)

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• It amazed me how some people could touch an instrument and create something so beautiful, and when others tried, like me, it just sounded like mangled noise.

  Ruta Sepetys

  Beautiful, People, Instruments

  Ruta Sepetys (2013). “Out of The Easy”, p.31, Penguin

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• A forty-foot worm?" Will muttered to Jem as they moved through the Italian garden, their boots - thanks to a pair of Soundless runes - making no noise on the gravel. "Think of the size of the fish we could catch." Jem's lips twitched. "It's not funny, you know." "It is a bit.

  Cassandra Clare

  Garden, Thinking, Italian

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “Clockwork Princess”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

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• There are certain half-dreaming moods of mind in which we naturally steal away from noise and glare, and seek some quiet haunt where we may indulge our reveries and build our air castles undisturbed.

  Washington Irving

  Dream, Air, Mind

  Washington Irving (1999). “Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories”, p.114, Penguin

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• And they both began to laugh over nothing as children will when they are happy together. And they laughed so that in the end they were making as much noise as if they had been two ordinary healthy natural ten-year-old creatures—instead of a hard, little, unloving girl and a sickly boy who believed that he was going to die.

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Girl, Children, Boys

  Frances Hodgson Burnett (2012). “The Secret Garden”, p.62, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• [There's a] point where you have to leave the dough alone. It's silly to anthropomorphize bread, but I love the fact that it needs to sit quietly, to retreat from touch and noise and drama, in order to evolve. I have to admit, I often feel that way myself.

  Jodi Picoult

  Drama, Silly, Order

  Randy Susan Meyers, M. J. Rose, Ronlyn Domingue, Sarah Pekkanen, Jodi Picoult (2013). “Atria Book Club Bites: A Free Sampling of Ten Books Guaranteed to Feed Your Discussion”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• Warren made a noise, the first one I'd heard out of him since we'd come into the room. I'd have been happier if he hadn't sounded scared. "Easy, Warren," Adam told him. "You're safe here.” "If you die on us, you won't be," said Kyle with a growl that would have done credit to any of the werewolves in the room.

  Patricia Briggs

  Credit, Done, Safe

  Patricia Briggs (2007). “Blood Bound”, p.135, Penguin

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• I brought Sammy inside and put him to bed. Said his prayer with him. “‘Now I lay me down to sleep…’” To me, just random noise. Gibberish. I wasn’t sure exactly what it was, but I felt that, when it came to God, there was a broken promise in there somewhere.

  Rick Yancey

  Prayer, Sleep, Broken

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.68, Penguin

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• Noise is relative to the silence preceeding it. The more absolute the hush, the more shocking the thunderclap. Our masters have not heard the peoples voice for generations, Evey and it is much, much louder than they care to remember.

  Alan Moore

  Voice, Silence, Generations

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• Because sometimes there's more worth in silence than noise. Sometimes everything you need to know is contained in that small quiet space. Sometimes we get so caught up in distraction and noise and seeking other people's approval we forget the quiet seed of truth that lives in our hearts. But just because we fail to tune in to it, doesn't mean it's not there.

  Alyson Noel

  Heart, Mean, Space

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• There is as much deception in noise as there is in silence

  Jacqueline Carey

  Silence, Deception

  Jacqueline Carey (2016). “Kushiel’s Legacy”, p.555, Macmillan

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• There is so much noise on the Internet, with would-be prophets daily haranguing their audience and megalomaniacs trying to push bizarre ideas, that eventually people will cherish a new commodity: wisdom.

  Michio Kaku

  Ideas, People, Trying

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• Especially when the October wind With frosty fingers punishes my hair, Caught by the crabbing sun I walk on fire And cast a shadow crab upon the land, By the sea's side, hearing the noise of birds, Hearing the raven cough in winter sticks, My busy heart who shudders as she talks Sheds the syllabic blood and drains her words.

  Dylan Thomas

  Heart, Winter, Fire

  Dylan Thomas, Daniel Jones (2003). “The Poems of Dylan Thomas”, p.116, New Directions Publishing

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