Quiet Quotes - Page 21

• She had been the quiet, rather plain girl, with a surprisingly sharp tongue if she was put out, lovely eyes and pretty hair and a way of looking very directly at one. Now he had to admit that she had become more important to him than anyone else in the world. The idea of a future without her wasn't to be borne. She had by some mysterious metamorphosis become more beautiful than anyone else he had ever encountered.

  Betty Neels

  Beautiful, Girl, Eye

  Betty Neels (2012). “Roses Have Thorns”, p.48, Harlequin

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• His voice stopped and they looked for a long quiet moment into each other's eyes and between them lay the sunny lost youth that they had so unthinkingly shared.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Eye, Quiet Moments, Lost Youth

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone With The Wind: American Literature”, p.891, 谷月社

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• He was quiet. I said nothing, hoping that maybe, for once, he'd stop pretenting he was okay. Then I could, too. That we could both forget the roles that had so long bound us.

  Megan Hart

  Long, Roles, Forget

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• Promise me you’ll look after yourself … stay out of trouble …’ ‘I always do, Mrs Weasley,’ said Harry. ‘I like a quiet life, you know me.

  J. K. Rowling

  Promise, Looks, Trouble

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• This was what she needed… the quiet turning to the other in the middle of the night, the wordless meeting of lips, skin, breath. The trust, unfurling one pale petal at a time, that he would be there.

  Eileen Wilks

  Night, Skins, Would Be

  Eileen Wilks (2005). “Mortal Danger”, p.89, Penguin

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• I gave three quiet cheers for Minnesota. In Seattle a dusty inch of anything white and chilly means the city lapses into full-on panic mode, as if each falling flake crashes to earth with its own individual baggie of used hypodermic needles. It’s ridiculous.

  Cherie Priest

  Cheer, Fall, Mean

  Cherie Priest (2011). “Bloodshot”, p.116, Spectra

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• He had found many years ago before that if you kept very quiet people filled in the silences themselves,offering more information than they had originally intended to give.

  Martina Cole

  Quiet People, Filled In, Offering

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• If you daren't enter the forest, or cannot find it, then perhaps you might find one tree, or a place where a tree could be, and just stop for a quiet moment to see what happens.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Quiet Moments, Tree, Might

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• The room was quiet, the others flicking glances at me. I ignored them. After years in Sounis's palaces being eyed with disgust by my uncle and my own father and courtier after courtier, I assure you I am unrivaled at pretending not to notice other people's glances.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Uncles, Father, Years

  Megan Whalen Turner (2010). “A Conspiracy of Kings”, Greenwillow

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• Time passes slowly. Nobody says a word, everyone lost in quiet reading. One person sits at a desk jotting down notes, but the rest are sitting there silently, not moving, totally absorbed. Just like me.

  Haruki Murakami

  Moving, Reading, Sitting

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Sep 13, 2016

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• A bluebear has twenty-seven lives. I shall recount thirteen-and-a-half of them in this book but keep quiet about the rest. A bear must have his secrets, after all; they make him seem attractive and mysterious.

  Walter Moers

  Book, Secret, Twenties

  Walter Moers (2006). “13 1/2 Lives of Captain Blue Bear”, p.4, The Overlook Press

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• Is the fire gone?" "Yes," I sighed. "Thank you, Edward." "I love you," he answered. "I know," I breathed, so tired. I heard my favorite sound in the world: Edward's quiet laugh, weak with relief.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Love You, Tired, Fire

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• If what a person wants is his life, he tends to be quiet about wanting anything else. Once the life begins to seem secure, one feels the freedom to complain.

  Ann Patchett

  Complaining, Want, Feels

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• People give themselves to you, in their talking, and in other ways, if you are quiet and patient and let them, and not in such a damned rush to give yourself to them you go bat-blind and deaf.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Talking, People, Giving

  Lois McMaster Bujold (2002). “Miles Errant”, p.463, Baen Books

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• But there would be no confrontation the next day. And for Tommy Williams, there would be no school, either. Because the moment he walked through the gap in the stones to leave the circle, something quiet unexpected happened. Tommy, holding tightly on to his rock, took the step that divided the inside of the circle from the outside - and disappeared. The woods suddenly felt colder than usual. The darkness hung more heavily. The amber was gone - and now nothing would ever be the same.

  Liz Kessler

  School, Rocks, Circles

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• I like it where it gets dark at night, and if you want noise, you have to make it yourself.

  H. Beam Piper

  Dark, Night, Want

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• I let her through. She checked Derek's pulse and his breathing, saying both seemed okay, then leaned down to his face. "Nothing weird on his breath. Smells . . . like toothpaste." Derek's eyes opened, and the first thing he saw was Tori's face inches from his. He jumped and let out an oath. Simon cracked up. I madly motioned for him to be quiet. "Are you okay?" I asked Derek. "He is now," Simon said. "After Tori jump-started his heart.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Heart, Eye, Breathing

  Kelley Armstrong (2010). “The Reckoning: Number 3 in series”, p.197, Hachette UK

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• She still remembered sitting for hours as a little girl and pretending to be a hassock. A foot stool. Because if she could just stay very small, and very quiet, her mother would forget she was there, and then she wouldn't scream about people and places and things that had gone wrong.

  Eloisa James

  Girl, Mother, Feet

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• How many Sundays - how many hundreds of Sundays like this - lay ahead of me? “Quiet, peaceful, and lonely,” I said aloud to myself. On Sundays, I didn't wind my spring.

  Haruki Murakami

  Lonely, Spring, Sunday

  "Norwegian Wood". Book by Haruki Murakami, 2000.

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• Yes! the books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill! The only years of my life that I can look back on with something like pride... Early and late, through the long winter nights and the quiet summer days, I drank at the fountain of knowledge, and never wearied of the draught.

  Wilkie Collins

  Summer, Book, Pride

  Wilkie Collins (2015). “Greatest Mystery Novels of Wilkie Collins”, p.1097, e-artnow sro

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• ...Sometimes I dream that everything in the world is here, in my room, in a great closet, named and orderly, and I am here too, in front of it, hardly able to see for the flash and the brightness- and sometimes I am that madcap person clapping my hands and singing; and sometimes I am that quiet person down on my knees.

  Mary Oliver

  Dream, Hands, Singing

  Mary Oliver (2004). “Why I Wake Early: New Poems”, p.39, Beacon Press

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• Now listen, we need to be quiet as mice. No, quieter than that. As quiet as...as..." "Dead mice?" Reynie suggested. "Perfect," said Kate with an approving nod. "As quiet as dead mice.

  Trenton Lee Stewart

  Perfect, Needs, Said

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• Sloppy language and sloppy ways go together. Those who are truly educated have learned more than the sciences, the humanities, law, engineering, and the arts. They carry with them a certain polish that marks them as loving the better qualities of life, a culture that adds luster to the mundane world of which they are apart, a patina that puts a quiet glow on what otherwise might be base metal.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Art, Engineering, Law

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• Civilizations grow by agreements and accomodations and accretions, not by repudiations. The rebels and the revolutionaries are only eddies, they keep the stream from getting stagnant but they get swept down and absorbed, they're a side issue. Quiet desperation is another name for the human condition. If revolutionaries would learn that they can't remodel society by day after tomorrow -- haven't the wisdom to and shouldn't be permitted to -- I'd have more respect for them ... Civilizations grow and change and decline -- they aren't remade.

  Wallace Stegner

  Agreement, Civilization, Names

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• He is dark and quiet and completely different from me, which is exactly why I should put distance between us. But it is also the reason I find him so fascinating.

  Jodi Picoult

  Distance, Dark, Different

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #2: Perfect Match, Second Glance, and My Sister's Keeper”, p.565, Simon and Schuster

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