Quiet Quotes - Page 19

• I would do exactly what you are doing: I would talk to everyone I needed to, I would not tell too many people his name. When I was sure," she said, "I would find a quiet way, and I would kill him.

  Alice Sebold

  Names, People, Way

  Alice Sebold (2002). “The Lovely Bones”, p.44, Hachette UK

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• And he wishes, in the cold quiet of his archer's heart, that he himself could feel the intensity of their reconciliations as strongly as he feels that of their battles.

  David Foster Wallace

  Archer, Heart, Wish

  David Foster Wallace (2014). “Girl With Curious Hair”, p.301, Hachette UK

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• So quiet...it's like...all the sounds in the world...have been stopped...only you scent...in the deepest part of my heart...echoing.

  Yuu Watase

  Heart, Sound, World

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• There was our father, the heart we knew held all of us. Held us heavily and desperately, the doors of his heart opening and closing with the rapidity of stops on an instrument, the quiet felt closures, the ghostly fingering, practice and practice and then, incredibly, sound and melody and warmth.

  Alice Sebold

  Father, Heart, Practice

  Alice Sebold (2014). “The Lovely Bones: Picador Classic”, p.99, Pan Macmillan

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• I came home at dusk with my ears ringing from the quiet.

  Tim Winton

  Home, Ears, Dusk

  Tim Winton (2009). “Breath”, p.61, Pan Macmillan

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• You took a walk on a Sunday afternoon and came to a nice neighborhood, very refined. You saw a small one of these trees through the iron gate leading to someone's yard and you knew that soon that section of Brooklyn would get to be a tenement district. The tree knew. It came there first. Afterwards, poor foreigners seeped in and the quiet old brownstone houses were hacked up into flats, feather beds were pushed out on the window sills to air and the Tree of Heaven flourished. That was the kind of tree it was. It liked poor people.

  Betty Smith

  Nice, Sunday, Air

  Betty Smith (2009). “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn”, p.6, Harper Collins

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• We studied our angels for a few moments more, looking at where we had lain side by side in that sweet, quiet moment. I wished what I’d said was true, that we had truly left our mark on the mountain. But I knew that after the next snowfall, our angels would disappear into the whiteness and be nothing more than a memory.

  Richelle Mead

  Sweet, Memories, Angel

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• Will you be quiet?" he asked, smiling down at her. She nodded. He pretended to think about it. "I don't believe you/" She planted her hands on her hips, which had to be a ludicrous postition, naked as she was from the waist up. All right," he acceded, "but the only words I'll allow from your mouth are, 'Oh, Gareth,' and 'Yes, Gareth.' He lifted his finger. What about 'More, Gareth?'" He almost kept a straith face. "That will be acceptable

  Julia Quinn

  Believe, Thinking, Hands

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• She was calm and quiet now with knowing what she had always known, what neither her parents nor Aunt Claire nor Frank nor anyone else had ever had to teach her: that if you wanted something to do something absolutely honest, something true, it always turned out to be a thing that had to be done alone.

  Richard Yates

  Aunt, Knowing, Parent

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• Past one o’clock. You must have gone to bed. The Milky Way streams silver through the night. I’m in no hurry; with lightning telegrams I have no cause to wake or trouble you. And, as they say, the incident is closed. Love’s boat has smashed against the daily grind. Now you and I are quits. Why bother then To balance mutual sorrows, pains, and hurts. Behold what quiet settles on the world. Night wraps the sky in tribute from the stars. In hours like these, one rises to address The ages, history, and all creation.

  Vladimir Mayakovsky

  Hurt, Stars, Pain

  Vladimir Mayakovsky (1975). “Klop, Stikhi, Poėmy”, p.237, Indiana University Press

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• I was in the air around him. I was in the cold mornings he had now. I was in the quiet time he spent alone. I was the girl he had chosen to kiss. He wanted, somehow to set me free. -Susie Salmon

  Alice Sebold

  Girl, Morning, Kissing

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• For the longest time after that, neither of us said anything. I was unaccustomed to his silence, but I didn't mind it. I knew near everything about him, and he knew near everything about me, and all that made our quiet a kind of song. The kind you hum without even knowing what it is or why you're humming it. The kind that you've always known.

  Gabrielle Zevin

  Song, Knowing, Silence

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• You tell yourself that noise is what defines silence. Without noise, silence would not be golden. Noise is the exception. Think of deep outer space, the incredible cold and quiet where your wife and kid wait. Silence, not heaven, would be reward enough.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Kids, Thinking, Space

  "Lullaby". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, 2002.

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• When you can flatten entire cities at a whim, a tendency towards quiet reflection and seeing-things-from-the-other-fellow's-point- of-view is seldom necessary.

  Terry Pratchett

  Reflection, Views, Cities

  "Small Gods". Book by ‎Terry Pratchett, 1992.

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• Over the last couple of years, the photos of me when I was a kid... well, they've started to give me a little pang or something - not unhappiness, exactly, but some kind of quiet, deep regret... I keep wanting to apologize to the little guy: "I'm sorry, I've let you down. I was the person who was supposed to look after you, but I blew it: I made wrong decisions at bad times, and I turned you into me.

  Nick Hornby

  Sorry, Couple, Regret

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• Then, are you master of us all? You didn't teach her that. Was she supposed to imbibe it from my quiet subservience?

  Anne Rice

  Masters, Teach, Subservience

  Anne Rice (2010). “Interview with the Vampire”, p.101, Ballantine Books

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• God never hurries. There are no deadlines against which he must work. Only to know this is to quiet our spirits and relax our nerves.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian Inspirational, Relax, Nerves

  Aiden Wilson Tozer (1965). “The Knowledge of the Holy”, p.52, Fig

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• I just told you to be quiet. That's one step away from asking you to wash my laundry and make me a sandwich.

  Richelle Mead

  Sandwiches, Asking, Steps

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• So there are cakes and pillows and colors galore, but underneath this more obvious patchwork quilt are places like a quiet room where you can go and hold someone's hand and not have to say anything.

  Alice Sebold

  Quilts, Hands, Color

  Alice Sebold (2014). “The Lovely Bones: Picador Classic”, p.229, Pan Macmillan

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• Many homicidal lunatics are very quiet, unassuming people. Delightful fellows.

  Agatha Christie

  People, Fellows, Unassuming

  Agatha Christie (1986). “And then there were none”, Pocket

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• Below me Rontu was running along the cliffs barking at the screaming gulls. Pelicans were chattering as they finished the blue water. But suddenly I thought of Tutok, and the island seemed very quiet.

  Scott O'Dell

  Running, Islands, Blue

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• There are a hundred places where I fear To go, --so with his memory they brim! And entering with relief some quiet place Where never fell his foot or shone his face I say, 'There is no memory of him here!' And so stand stricken, so remembering him!

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Memories, Feet, Relief

  Edna St Vincent, Edna St. Vincent Millay (2013). “The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection”, p.144, eBookIt.com

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• Iggy: "Now what? Who you gonna call?" A quiet voice in the hallway outside: "Ghostbusters!" (Captain Perry and John groan) John: "That phrase is ruined forever.

  James Patterson

  Quiet Voice, Forever, Phrases

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• Sounds of life and movement, people getting ready and people giving up, the sound of hope and the sound of hanging on, and behind them all, the quiet, deadly ticking of a thousand hungry clocks.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Giving Up, People, Sound

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “The Rum Diary: Film Tie-in Edition”, p.213, A&C Black

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• He laced his fingers through mine and lifted my hand to his lips. I had gloves on, but he kissed exactly where I wore his ring. “Why are you so sweet?” I asked, my voice small. My heart beat rapidly, and every star peeping through the clouds seemed to be shining just for me. “I don’t think I’m that sweet. I mean, I just told you to be quiet. That’s one step away from asking you to wash my laundry and make me a sandwich.” “You know what I mean.” Seth pressed another kiss to my forehead. “I’m sweet because you make it easy to be sweet.

  Richelle Mead

  Sweet, Stars, Heart

  Richelle Mead (2012). “Succubus Dreams”, p.117, Kensington Publishing Corp.

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