Quotes of: Soundness Keyword

The voice had an extraordinary sadness. Pure from all body, pure from all passion, going out into the world, solitary, unanswered, breaking against rocks—so it sounded.

Jacob's Room

Change always sounds bad <...> we make it worse by resisting it. Sometimes the only thing worth pursuing is change. How else would we learn anything?

Kiss of Fire

The trouble with poetry is it's often written to the sound of a drum only the poet may hear; nonetheless, blessed are those poets who always manage to find unshakeable pleasure in their own works.

Killosophy

Thy youngest daughter does not love thee least; nor are those empty-hearted whose low sounds reverb no hollowness.

King Lear

She sounded like she really meant it, and I wondered if I actually was standing here on the sidewalk with her, and not still asleep in my room.

Rising Tide: Dark Innocence

I’ve had a tense couple of days. And I’ve got to tell you, burning someone’s face off sounds like a great way to relax.

Small Favor

I enjoyed writing. Perhaps it was because I hardly heard the sound of my own voice. My written words were my voice, speaking, singing, ... I was there on the page

Shadow

It was inevitable, of course, but somehow it didn't seem right to Alex that they would never remember the sound of Carly's laughter, or know how deeply she'd once loved them.

Safe Haven

A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.

Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life

Goldenrod Moram had a first name that sounded like it belonged in the middle of a fairy tale, where she would be the dazzling princess in need of rescuing.

The Mapmaker and the Ghost

As happens sometimes, a moment settled and hovered and remained for much more than a moment. And sound stopped and movement stopped for much, much more than a moment.

Of Mice and Men

Whoever has the better stuff wins. Sound familiar, American lackeys of late-stage capitalism?

The Noble Hustle: Poker, Beef Jerky, and Death

His eyes were eggs of unstable crystal, vibrating with a frequency whose name was rain and the sound of trains, suddenly sprouting a humming forest of hair-fine glass spines.

Neuromancer

She glanced down at the contents of her plate. "Sloppy Joe," she managed. "Hmm," he said, sounding doubtful. "May he rest in peace.

Nevermore

Then, all but instinctively, I took her in my arms. Pressed against me, her whole body trembling, she continued to cry without a sound.

Norwegian Wood

It was deep and wide as autumn’s ending. It was heavy as a great river-smooth stone. It was the patient, cut-flower sound of a man who is waiting to die.

The Name of the Wind

My love is atonal. It sounds like a bodily function (walking, or sometimes running). 

Love Quotes for the Ages. Specifically Ages 19-91.

Love is the science of reducing your sound while upping the amplitude of another person.

Love quotes for the ages. Specifically ages 18-81.

I suppose you’re young,’ she conceded, managing once again to make youth sound like impetigo

Latest Accessory

I hated talking, and I hated listening to everyone else stumble on their words and try to phrase things in the vaguest possible way so they wouldn’t sound dumb.

Looking for Alaska

ingenuity was apparently given man in order that he may supply himself in crises with shapes and sounds with which to guard himself from truth.

Light in August