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• Personally, I always wondered about authors and celebrities who loudly declared there was no God. It was usually when they were healthy and popular and being listened to by crowds. What happens, I wondered, in the quiet moments before death? By then, they have lost the stage, the world has moved on. If suddenly, in their last gasping moments, through fear, a vision, a late enlightenment, they change their minds about God, who would know?

  Mitch Albom

  Quiet Moments, Healthy, Mind

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• My tears are like the quiet drift of petals from some magic rose; and all my grief flows from the rift of unremembered skies and snows. I think that if I touched the earth, it would crumble; it is so sad and beautiful, so tremulously like a dream.

  Dylan Thomas

  Beautiful, Dream, Grief

  Dylan Thomas, “Clown In The Moon”

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• There is a movement happening, a quiet one. A low-profile, low-resolution revolution. Comprised of writers and dreamers, of guerrilla artists and thought-ninjas. Those with something to say. They communicate through text inscribed on true public spaces, rather than blogs and forums. Choosing fewer words, even without being bound by 140 character limits. Using ink instead of pixels. Sending messages in living, breathing space. Pens scream louder into the void. Even if permanent ink is not aptly named.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Character, Artist, Space

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• It was then that Marvin got religion. Not the quiet, personal kind, that involves doing good deeds and living a better life; not even the kind that involves putting on a suit and ringing people's doorbells; but the kind that involves having your own TV network and getting people to send you money.

  Terry Pratchett

  People, Deeds, Suits

  "Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch (Saturday)". Book by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman, May 1, 1990.

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• WAKING AT NIGHT The blue river is grey at morning and evening. There is twilight at dawn and dusk. I lie in the dark wondering if this quiet in me now is a beginning or an end.

  Jack Gilbert

  Morning, Lying, Twilight

  Jack Gilbert (2012). “Collected Poems”, p.354, Knopf

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• It snowed all week. Wheels and footsteps moved soundlessly on the street, as if the business of living continued secretly behind a pale but impenetrable curtain. In the falling quiet there was no sky or earth, only snow lifting in the wind, frosting the window glass, chilling the rooms, deadening and hushing the city. At all hours it was necessary to keep a lamp lighted, and Mrs. Miller lost track of the days: Friday was no different from Saturday and on Sunday she went to the grocery: closed, of course.

  Truman Capote

  Friday, Fall, Sunday

  Truman Capote, Eleanor Perry, Frank Perry (1971). “Trilogy; an experiment in multimedia”

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• You're a quiet, beautiful woman in a loud, ugly place. An orchid among weeds. You define obvious.

  Lynn Viehl

  Beautiful, Weed, Orchids

  Lynn Viehl (2009). “Stay the Night: A Novel of the Darkyn”, p.30, Penguin

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• I want that quiet rapture again. I want to feel the same powerful, nameless urge that I used to feel when I turned to my books. The breath of desire that then arose from the coloured backs of the books, shall fill me again, melt the heavy, dead lump of lead that lies somewhere in me and waken again the impatience of the future, the quick joy in the world of thought, it shall bring back again the lost eagerness of my youth. I sit and wait.

  Erich Maria Remarque

  Powerful, Lying, Book

  Erich Maria Remarque (2013). “All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel”, p.127, Random House

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• I turn off the radio, listen to the quiet. Which has its own, rich sound. Which I knew, but had forgotten. And it is good to remember.

  Elizabeth Berg

  Sound, Radio, Remember

  Elizabeth Berg (2000). “Open House: A Novel”, Random House Incorporated

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• All that Syrio Forel had taught her went racing through her head. Swift as a deer. Quiet as shadow. Fear cuts deeper than swords. Quick as a snake. Calm as still water. Fear cuts deeper than swords. Strong as a bear. Fierce as a wolverine. Fear cuts deeper than swords. Then man who fears losing has already lost. Fear cuts deeper than swords. Fear cuts deeper than swords. Fear cuts deeper than swords.

  George R. R. Martin

  Strong, Cutting, Men

  George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows”, p.476, Bantam

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• I just laid around in my bed, looking at the ceiling, and i smiled because it was a nice kind of quiet.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Nice, Bed, Ceilings

  Stephen Chbosky (2012). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower”, p.112, Simon and Schuster

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• Do whatever you must, Karigan," he told her, his voice so quiet it would not carry, "to come back. You must come back. To me." ~King Zachary

  Kristen Britain

  Voice, Come Back To Me

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• You got used to running things on your own." "What could he do about it when he's in Iraq and the car breaks down in Kansas?" Beckett gave her a long, quiet look. "I'm not in Iraq." "No, and it has to be said, I'm not in Kansas anymore." She lifted her hands, then let them fall. "It's not that I've forgotten how to be a couple, but that my experience in being part of one is different from yours. Maybe from most people's. And I've been on my own a long time." "Now you're not. I'm not fighting a war, and I'm right here." Needed to be here, he realized, with her.

  Nora Roberts

  Running, Couple, War

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• And they were quiet but their blood and nerves and butterflies were not—they were rampantly alive, rushing and thrumming in a wild and perfect melody, matched note for note.

  Laini Taylor

  Butterfly, Blood, Rushing

  Laini Taylor (2011). “Daughter of Smoke and Bone: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.189, Hachette UK

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• Shh!" the guy beside me hissed again. "Blame him," I told the guy, pointing at Patch. The guy craned his neck back. "Listen," he said, facing me again. "If you don't quiet down, I'll get security." "Fine, go get security. Tell them to take him away," I said, again signaling Patch. "Tell them he wants to kill me." "I want to kill you," hissed the guy's girlfriend.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Girlfriend, Guy, Shh

  "Hush, Hush". Book by Becca Fitzpatrick, October 13, 2009.

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• Since it had gotten so quiet in the room that you could hear the sound of your own doubts.

  Jodi Picoult

  Doubt, Sound, Rooms

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “Nineteen Minutes: A Novel”, p.158, Simon and Schuster

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• To me a good book is like a quiet friend—a friend who’s happy to share thoughts and feelings with you, who’s always there when you need them. Best of all, this friend doesn’t have any secrets. They trust you to understand them. They take you to their innermost places. They share their sensations and emotions—and they let you experience them. Wherever you go and however you feel, they are always by your side. For an hour, a day, a week, or forever, their life becomes yours. Their story is your story. That’s the kind of book I’m trying to write.

  Kevin Brooks

  Book, Writing, Your Side

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• It could be enough, maybe, or at least a start, but the problem is that at night I tumble into dreams that aren't dreams at all. I tumble into memories and wake up aching for a dying world and a quiet, cold life that offered me nothing but sitting in a still room.

  Elizabeth Scott

  Dream, Memories, Night

  Elizabeth Scott (2011). “As I Wake”, p.101, Penguin

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• But they know about us, they know, the four corners, and the chairs nearby us. Discerning shadows also know, and even the table keeps quiet.

  Wislawa Szymborska

  Shadow, Four, Tables

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• Po swirled upward from where it had been sitting, and floated over to the window. "When you go swimming and you put your head under the water," Po said, "and everything is strange and underwater-sounding, and strange and underwater-looking, you don't miss the air do you? You don't miss the above-water sounds and the above-water look. It's just different." "True." Liesl was quiet for a moment. Then she added, "But I bet you'd miss it if you were drowning. I bet you'd really miss the air then."

  Lauren Oliver

  Swimming, Air, Water

  "Liesl & Po". Book by Lauren Oliver, September 29, 2011.

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• Oh, if I had had a friend at this moment, a friend in an attic room, dreaming by candlelight and with a violin lying ready at his hand! How I should have slipped up to him in his quiet hour, noiselessly climbing the winding stair to take him by surprise, and then with talk and music we should have held heavenly festival throughout the night!

  Hermann Hesse

  Dream, Lying, Night

  Hermann Hesse (2013). “Steppenwolf: A Novel”, p.36, Macmillan

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• There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course; a quiet conscience.

  Euripides

  Life, Success, Character

  Aeschylus, Euripides, Sophocles (1960). “The Complete Greek Tragedies: Euripides”

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• It's the time of the night I like best, when most people are asleep and it feels like the world belongs completely to my friends and me, as though nothing exists apart from out little circle: everywhere else is darkness and quiet.

  Lauren Oliver

  Night, Circles, People

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “The Lauren Oliver Collection: Before I Fall, Panic, Vanishing Girls”, p.33, HarperCollins

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• I'm unaware that my feet are moving to the table until I'm inches from the holograph. My hand reaches in and cups a rapidly blinking green light. Someone joins me, his body tense. Finnick, of course. Because only a victor would see what I see so immediately. The arena. Laced with pods controlled by Gamemakers. Finnick's fingers caress a steady red glow over a doorway. "Ladies and gentlemen..." His voice is quiet, but mine rings through the room. "Let the Seventy-sixth Hunger Games begin!

  Suzanne Collins

  Moving, Voice, Feet

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.251, Scholastic Inc.

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• Don't be so anxious about it,' she laughed. 'I'm not used to being loved. I wouldn't know what to do; I never got the trick of it.' She looked down at him, shy and fatigued. 'So here we are. I told you years ago that I had the makings of Cinderella.' He took her hand; she drew it back instinctively and then replaced it in his. 'Beg your pardon. Not even used to being touched. But I'm not afraid of you, if you stay quiet and don't move suddenly.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Moving, Hands, Years

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.2019, e-artnow

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