Quotes of: Earring Keyword

It’s getting more difficult to be wise,” he says, laughing into my ear. I smile at him. “I think that’s how it’s supposed to be.

Allegiant

it'll be this kind of deep blue”she said. “The kind of color that somehow sucks your eyes and your ears and all your words —the color of a completely closed-in night

Asleep

This will be Great Mam's last spring. Her last June apples. Her last fresh roasting ears from the garden.

Homeland and Other Stories

I was so nearly happy. There remained only a tiny something, something unexplained and inexplicable that buzzed in my ear when the lights were out, like a malarial mosquito.

Inside the Whale

Jane! will you hear reason?' (he stooped and approached his lips to my ear) 'because, if you won't, I'll try violence.

Jane Eyre

The terror is trapped inside of him and paralyzes him. He closes his eyes again and tries to drown out the scream - but it keeps ringing and ringing and ringing in his ears.

Rani of Rampur

Then he returned to Mabel and put his mouth to her ear. I'd never let anything happen to you. You know that, don't you?

The Snow Child

When I wear her clothes, I just feel safer, like she's whispering in my ear.

The Sky is Everywhere

We imagine always when we speak that it is our own ears, our own mind, that are listening.

In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower

‎"The less random stuff you hear about, the more room in your ears for music, that's what I always say" -Paisley

The Secret Sisterhood of Heartbreakers

His ear heard more than what was said to him, and his slow speech had overtones not of thought, but of understanding beyond thought.

Of Mice and Men

Smartass Disciple: If there were two masters, which one should I listen to? Master of Stupidity: Use the ears to the one who looks so stupid, eyes to else.

Master of Stupidity

My doppelganger wraps the ear in a handkerchief and shoves it into his pocket as he leaves the train with a nod of his head in my direction.” William Wilson in the short story 'Metro' by Steen Langstrup

Metro

But men love abstract reasoning and neat systematization so much that they think nothing of distorting the truth, closing their eyes and ears to contrary evidence to preserve their logical constructions.

Notes from Underground

I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to listen to the revelation of their harmony.

November

Sales is the art of canvasing a field, framing a problem, and painting a solution. But you can’t go Van Gogh on a deal. You’ve got to use both your ears.

Sleepwalking is restercise

If I hung out with Van Gogh, I don’t know what we’d do. We’d just play it by ear, I guess.

So many chairs, and no time to sit

My phone is on my bed, whispering in my ear like a bottle of scotch to a recovering alcoholic, while the rain continues cackling at me through my window

The Sea of Tranquility

Peabody may not have seen the man turn into a grizzly, but he was bright enough to know that Injun Joe was getting set to adjust another relative ass-to-ears ratio.

Turn Coat

He clenched his teeth and muttered, "I can't get deep enough." .... Putting her mouth to his ear, she whispered, "Try.

Pia Saves the Day

The crushed teapot in the rubbish of the bulldozed house will sing in your ears forever.

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