Quotes of: Quiet-time Keyword

There is nothing that makes me happier than sitting around the dinner table and talking until the candles are burned down.

A Circle of Quiet

Our country in general assumes that "the pursuit of happiness" really means "the pursuit of pleasure" and that therefore pleasure is the greatest good.

A Circle of Quiet

The truth remains quiet inside us,floundering like a battered bird,desperately wanting to spread its wings and fly away. -TARA

The Color of our Sky

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.

Daughter of Smoke & Bone

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.

The Dance Most of All: Poems

All we had was her room, her stories, and the quiet that settled in as we tried in vain to spread ourselves out and fill the space she'd left behind.

Dreamland

All is forgotten in the stone halls of the dead. These are the rooms of ruin where the spiders spin and the great circuits fall quiet, one by one...

The Dark Tower

Oh, I guess I'm physically able to father a child. That's not what I'm thinking. I'm too closely married to a quiet reading lamp".

East of Eden

An old house that had lived its life long ago and so was very quiet and wise and a little mysterious. Also a little austere, but very kind.

Emily's Quest

The return of solitude was not quite as Dina expected it to be. These many years I made a virtue of inescapable reality, she thought, calling it peace and quiet.

A Fine Balance

The whole thing was the precise opposite of what I figured it would be: slow and patient and quiet and neither particularly painful nor particularly ecstatic

The Fault in Our Stars

They sell courage of a sort in the taverns. And another sort, though not for sale, a man can find in the confessional. Try the alehouses and the churches, Hugh. In either a man can be quiet and think.

The Heretic's Apprentice

Quiet, by its nature, slips away unnoticed. But once it's gone, we notice.

A Hunger for High Country: One Woman's Journey to the Wild in Yellowstone Country

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

Blackveil

Jenny retained a flimsy essence of the truth. It was a quiet knowing she'd always hold in her heart...''Broken Mirror by Oliver Rixon

Broken Mirror: A Psychological Thriller

Everyone was trying to forget something, but they could never seem to find the way to do it. All they ever seemed to do was make it worse. Such quiet madness, the masses led.

The Hollow March

A void in my chest was beginning to fill with anger. Quiet, defeated anger that guaranteed me the right to my hurt, that believed no one could possibly understand that hurt.

House Rules

Hugo headed off toward the door to leave, but the bookstore was warm and quiet, and the teetering piles of books fascinated him.

The Invention of Hugo Cabret

We are starved for quiet, to hear the sound of sheer silence that is the presence of God himself.

Invitation to Solitude and Silence: Experiencing God's Transforming Presence

Only the deceased could hear this quietness, he thought; no wonder they were tossing and turning in their graves seven feet under the ground – they cannot take it, they want out.

Johnny Kiddow

Jonah’s anger was not marked by outbursts of rage but by a quiet withdrawal from the company of others and a growing preoccupation with the events in his own life.

Jonah: Navigating a God-Centered Life