Quotes of: Quietness Keyword

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

Wishing, like sipping a glass of punch, or pulling aside a bearskin rug in order to access a hidden trapdoor in the floor, is merely a quiet way to spend one's time before the candles are extinguished on one's birthday cake.

Horseradish

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

When you can flatten entire cities at a whim, a tendency towards quiet reflection and seeing-things-from-the-other-fellow's-point- of-view is seldom necessary.

Small Gods

The master action to move forward, is a form of inaction; being still and quiet.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

She wanted something else, something different, something more. Passion and romance, perhaps, or maybe quiet conversations in candlelit rooms, or perhaps something as simple as not being second.

The Notebook

The man now retrieved a linen cloth and stuffed it deep into Katherine’s mouth. “Death,” he whispered to her, “should be a quiet thing.

The Lost Symbol

That’s how it felt – that the loss of him had a life of its own. I lived with it as I could have lived with him. Some nights it was quiet and sometimes it pounded on my door.

Loved

My mother is quiet. The way he acts, she thinks it must mean he doesn't love her as much as she loves him

Swimming Toward the Ocean: A Novel

Her need was as big as the stars, and he was down there on the beach, so quiet she could hardly hear him.

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

In fact, the room was so quiet you might have heard a drop of paint splash.

Shades of Grey: The Road to High Saffron

If you can be quiet, you’re more than welcome to stay in my House of Silence. Bring your own bubblegum ice cream.  

Seriously delirious, but not at all serious

so quiet now my dearest knight your armor shines white still for my lips shall not say the words that make you flee with fear "White Knight

Sins Within

Computers are quiet and clean and totally distracting because the Internet is there, lying in wait for a moment of weakness to pounce on your creativity and progress.

And Then Things Fall Apart

It is a duty of every citizen to pray for those who are authority and the nation; so that each one of us may live a peaceful and quiet lives in sacredness.

Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

He considered his disposition as of the sort which must suffer heavily, uniting very strong feelings with quiet,serious, and retiring manners, and a decided taste for reading and sedentary pursuits.

Persuasion

Jim looks out the car window with his nose pressed to the glass. Sometimes he pretends to be asleep. Not because he is tired, but because he needs to be quiet.

Perfect

There was the smell of old books, a smell that has a way of making all libraries seem the same. Some say that smell is asbestos.

Quiet, Please: Dispatches From A Public Librarian