Quiet Quotes - Page 29

• It might drive some people crazy, living like this, but the quiet keeps me company.

  Pittacus Lore

  Crazy, People, Might

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• Jesus," Dante interjected when the heavy quiet in the vehicle seemed endless. "All this touchy feely is making me itchy to kill something. How about we quit jerking each other off and go blow the roof off this mutha?

  Tina St. John

  Jesus, Blow, Quitting

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• wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers, for the sleepers in that quiet earth.

  Emily Bronte

  Slumber, Earth, Imagine

  Wuthering Heights ch. 34 (1847)

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• She was sleeping in a quiet bedroom beside her brother, separated only by glass and sand from the young man she loved, a young man who loved her back

  Nicholas Sparks

  Brother, Sleep, Men

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• Just be quiet and accept the praise.

  Julia Quinn

  Praise, Accepting

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• When I was done reading the poem, everyone was quiet. A very sad quiet. But the amazing thing was that it wasn’t a bad sad at all. It was just something that made everyone look around at each other and know that they were there. Sam and Patrick looked at me. And I looked at them. And I think they knew. Not anything specific really. They just knew. And I think that’s all you can ever ask from a friend.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Reading, Thinking, Looks

  Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.51, Simon and Schuster

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• All I wanted was to be left alone. They abhor a vacuum, other people. You find a quiet corner where you can hunker down in peace, and the next minute there they are, crowding around you in their party hats, tooting their paper whistles in your face and insisting you get up and join in the knees-up.

  John Banville

  Party, People, Vacuums

  John Banville (2011). “Eclipse”, p.145, Pan Macmillan

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• He's a wallflower." And Bob nodded his head. And the whole room nodded their head. And i started to feel nervous in the Bob way, but Patrick didn't let me get too nervous. He sat down next to me. "You see things. You keep quiet about them. And you understand.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Bob, Way, Rooms

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• You're going to pee in someone's suitcase?" "Do you have any other ideas?" And suddenly Miracolina begins to snicker, then giggle, then giggle, then cackle uncontrollably. "He's going to pee in someone's suitcase!" "Quiet! Do you want people on the bus to hear you?" But Miracolina is beyond help. She's entered into a fullfledged laughter fit-the kind that leaves your stomach hurting. "They're gonna open their suitcase," she blurts between bursts of glee, "And their clothes’ll be full of pee!

  Neal Shusterman

  Hurt, Laughter, Ideas

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• Theodor Geisel (otherwise known as Dr. Seuss) spent his workdays ensconced in his private studio, the walls lined with sketches and drawings, in a bell-tower outside his La Jolla, California, house. Geisel was a much more quiet man than his jocular rhymes suggest. He rarely ventured out in public to meet his young readership, fretting that kids would expect a merry, outspoken, Cat in the Hat–like figure, and would be disappointed with his reserved personality. “In mass, [children] terrify me,” he admitted.

  Susan Cain

  Children, Wall, Cat

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.86, Broadway Books

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• The funeral is a quiet one, despite the number of mourners present. There are no sobs or flailing handkerchiefs. There is a smattering of color amongst the sea of traditional black. Even the light rain cannot push it down into the realms of despair. It rests instead in a space of thoughtful melancholy.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Rain, Thoughtful, Light

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• The sensation reminds him of the first snow of winter, for those first few hours when everything is blanketed in white, soft and quiet.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Winter, White, Snow

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• The library was one enormous room, with long, high metal shelves and the perfect quiet that libraries provide for anyone looking for an answer.

  Daniel Handler

  Long, Perfect, Library

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• I've tried to move [the sidhe-seers] during times of peace and quiet and had the luck of a broken mirror nailed beneath an upside-down horseshoe with a ladder nearby that a black cat just walked under.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Moving, Cat, Mirrors

  Karen Marie Moning (2012). “Iced: Fever Series”, p.373, Delacorte Press

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• But every once in a while, from out of the blue, someone reaches the quiet place where you spend your private time and changes the way you see yourself

  J.R. Ward

  Blue, Way, Time And Change

  J.R. Ward (2011). “J.R. Ward The Black Dagger Brotherhood Novels 5-8”, p.2311, Penguin

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• These are the few ways we can practice humility: To speak as little as possible of one's self. To mind one's own business. Not to want to manage other people's affairs. To avoid curiosity. To accept contradictions and correction cheerfully. To pass over the mistakes of others. To accept insults and injuries. To accept being slighted, forgotten and disliked. To be kind and gentle even under provocation. Never to stand on one's dignity. To choose always the hardest.

  Mother Teresa

  Mistake, Humble, Humility

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• When it’s quiet in my head like this, that’s when the voice doesn’t need to tell me how pathetic I am. I know it in the deepest part of me. When it’s quiet like this, that’s when I truly hate myself.

  Portia de Rossi

  Hate, Voice, Needs

  Portia de Rossi (2011). “Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

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• I’ve been around many girls who have been super outgoing. And a lot of times, they would say to me, “Why are you so quiet? What’s wrong with you?” And I’m like, “I don’t know. That’s just the way I am.” So if I found the perfect girl she would totally get that and say, “You’re quiet, and that’s the way I love you.

  Adam Young

  Girl, Love You, Perfect

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• That's my favorite thing about him. I like to lie next to him when it's late, dark, and so quiet I can hear my own heartbeat. It's times like that when I'm sure that I'm in love.

  Lauren Oliver

  Lying, Dark, Next

  Lauren Oliver (2010). “Before I Fall”, p.34, Harper Collins

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• I force my eyes upward and look at Mia for the first time. She's still beautiful. Not in an obvious Vanessa LeGrande or Bryn Shraeder kind of way. In a quiet way that's always been devastating to me. Her hair, long and dark, is down now, swimming damply against her bare shoulders, which are still milky white and covered with the constellation of freckles that I used to kiss. The scar on her left shoulder, the one that used to be an angry red weld is silvery pink now. Almost like the latest rage in tattoo accessories. Almost pretty.

  Gayle Forman

  Tattoo, Beautiful, Eye

  Gayle Forman (2009). “If I Stay”, p.135, Penguin

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• Sit and quiet yourself. Luxuriate in a certain memory and the details will come. Let the images flow. You'll be amazed at what will come out on paper. I'm still learning what it is about the past that I want to write. I don't worry about it. It will emerge. It will insist on being told.

  Frank McCourt

  Memories, Writing, Past

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• Reader, I kissed her. A quiet walk we had, she and I.

  Gary D. Schmidt

  Walks, Reader

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• Could the two people who are making out please be quiet?" the Colonel asked loudly from his sleeping bag. "Those of us who are not making out are drunk and tired.

  John Green

  Tired, Sleep, Two

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.95, Penguin

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• We are plain quiet folk, and I have no use for adventures. Nasty, disturbing, and uncomfortable things.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Adventure, Use, Nasty

  "The Hobbit". 75th Anniversary Edition,

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• There are some people who cannot help giving. Why? Because they experience a real psychological pleasure in doing so. They don't do it with an eye to their own advantage, they do it on the quiet; they detest doing it openly because that would take away some of the satisfaction. They do it in secret, with quick trembling hands, their breasts rocked by a spiritual well being which they do not themselves understand.

  Knut Hamsun

  Spiritual, Real, Eye

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