Quotes of: Silence Keyword

I am the poet, you are the poem; I hold the pen, you are the words, love is the ink, silence is the blank page.

The Calligraphy of God

Why must you speak your thoughts? Silence, if fair words stick in your throat, would serve all our ends better.

The Children of Húrin

He had found many years ago before that if you kept very quiet people filled in the silences themselves,offering more information than they had originally intended to give.

Close

He has become a worm. That is what I am telling you." "I don't suppose it would be possible," said Henry into the silence, "to, er, step on him?

Clockwork Princess

When I was walking in the mountains with the Japanese man and began to hear the water, he said, 'What is the sound of the waterfall?' 'Silence,' he finally told me.

Collected Poems

There were always people who struggled their way to the top of the heap, no matter how much that heap looked like garbage when seen from the outside.

Cast in Silence

The thing that seemed like silence must have been the endless cry of all the crickets and locusts in the world, rising and falling. ("The Wide Net")

The Collected Stories

Sleep makes the silence and the terrible fear go by more quickly, helps pass the time, since it's impossible to kill.

The Diary of a Young Girl

The silence, she thought, was remarkable: a perfect, shimmering thing, and fragile. Like glass, if it shattered, it would never come back together again.

Days of Blood & Starlight

There is an awkward silence that overcomes you when cross paths with the person that kisses your heart the second that you meet them. It balances on the edge of unknown but always desired.

Darkness Left Undone

Concerted voices of heartfelt petitions in Arabic all pleading for divine intervention are abruptly silenced as the drone ensures fatalities by injecting a final stab in each of their skulls.

Djesus Undead

She was extending a hand I didn’t know how to take, so I broke its fingers with my silence.

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Sometimes in the winter, when the fog rolled in and silenced the waves, it felt as if death had its fingers around my neck. Fingers like frostbitten twigs that made me ache inside.

The Foxglove Killings

Always, just beyond all these things, was the silver sea, the lace border around all land like the silence around sounds or the unknowns beyond all knowledge.

The Faraway Nearby

There were many things they simply didn't talk about: between them, silence was not so much a form of evasion as a way for solitary people to exist in a family.

Great House

He was able to sit in silence for long stretches without feeling a need to make small talk.

Heavier Than Heaven: A Biography of Kurt Cobain

Maybe I was naïve to think that silence was implicit complacence, instead of a festering question. Maybe I was silly to believe that friends owed each other anything.

Handle with Care

There was a brief silence in which the distant echo of Hagrid smashing down a wooden front door seemed to reverberate through the intervening years.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

It's a silence I know. The kind that's actually a sound so loud your brain doesn't know how to interpret it at first.

All Our Yesterdays

Just in case you’re wondering,” Gage says, breaking the silence, “this alliance of ours doesn’t mean I like you.” “Feeling’s mutual.” Julian tosses him a disdainful look.

Burning Falls

When we two parted, In silence and tears, Half brokenhearted To sever for years..." When We Two parted-George Gordon, Lord Byron

Bellamore A Beautiful Love To Remember