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“That knowledge humbles me, melts my bones, closes my ears, and makes my teeth rock loosely in their gums. And it also liberates me. I am a big bird winging over high mountains, down into serene valleys. I am ripples of waves on silver seas. I'm a spring leaf trembling in anticipation.”

Bigs Sea Rocks Mountain Spring Bird Ears Wave Bones Teeth Silver Valleys Anticipation Leafs Serene Trembling Ripple Gum Big Bird

Author:Maya Angelou

“All the stories I would like to write persecute me. When I am in my chamber, it seems as if they are all around me, like little devils, and while one tugs at my ear, another tweaks my nose, and each says to me, 'Sir, write me, I am beautiful.”

Ifs Writing Littles Stories Seems Beautiful Devil Ears Noses Chamber Tweak I Am Beautiful

Book:The Island of the Day Before

Source: The Island of the Day Before

“I am irritated by my own writing. I am like a violinist whose ear is true, but whose fingers refuse to reproduce precisely the sound he hears within.”

Writing Sound My Own Ears Fingers Refuse Fiction Writing Funny Life Writers And Writing Fiction Writers Novel Writing Irritated Writing Fiction Writing By Writers Violinist Creativity And Writing

Author:Gustave Flaubert

“...few young poets [are] testing their poems against the ear. They're writing for the page, and the page, let me tell you, is a cold bed.”

Writing Young Poet Cold Bed Pages Ears Let Me Testing

Author:Stanley Kunitz

“Well I come from a land, from a far away place, where the caravan camels roam. They will cut of your ear if they don't like your face, it's babaric, but hey, it's home.”

Ifs Wells Home Faces Cutting Land Ears Hey Your Face Far Away Camels Caravans

Author:Walt Disney

“Clarinet n. An instrument of torture operated by a person with cotton in his ears. There are two instruments worse than a clarinet – two clarinets.”

Persons Two Ears Instruments Torture Cotton Clarinet

Author:Ambrose Bierce

“The heart lies and the head plays tricks on us, but the eyes see true. Look with your eyes. Hear with your ears. Taste with your mouth. Smell with your nose. Feel with your skin. Then comes the thinking, afterward, and in a way knowing the truth.”

Thinking Way Feels Looks Heart Play Eye Lying Knowing Taste Mouths Skins Ears Smell Tricks Noses Knowing The Truth

Book:A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows

Source: A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows

“Once she remembered trying to box her own ears for having cheated herself in a game of croquet she was playing against herself, for this curious child was very fond of pretending to be two people.”

People Trying Children Two Games Ears Boxes Curious Remembered Pretending Cheated Croquet

Book:Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass: 150th-Anniversary Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass: 150th-Anniversary Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

“Let no one rule your mind or body. Take special care that your thoughts remain unfettered... Give men your ear, but not your heart. Show respect for those in power, but don't follow them blindly. Judge with logic and reason, but comment not. Consider none your superior in life. Treat all fairly or they will seek revenge. Be careful with your money. Hold fast to your beliefs and others will listen.”

Men Life Giving Mind Firsts Heart Reason Shows Body Care Belief Special Judging Logic Ears Treats Careful Revenge Superiors Stations Comment Be Careful Hold Fast Eragon Show Respect

Author:Christopher Paolini

“And that was as far as he got before i heard it. The thumping of footsteps, running up the lawn toward me: It seemed like I could hear it through the grass, like leaning your ear to a railroad track and feeling the train coming, miles away. As the noise got closer I could hear ragged breaths, and then a voice. It was my mother.”

Feelings Running Mother Voice Heard Ears Breaths Train Track Miles Noise Grass Footsteps Lawns Railroads Miles Away Ragged Railroad Tracks

Book:Dreamland

Source: Dreamland

“Dreams like a podcast, Downloading truth in my ears. They tell me cool stuff." "Apollo?" I guess, because I figured nobody else could make a haiku that bad. He put his finger to his lips. "I'm incognito. Call me Fred." "A god named Fred?”

Dream Stuff Ears Fingers Lips Call Me Apollo Haiku Percy Jackson And The Olympians Cool Stuff

Author:Rick Riordan

“But she had that laugh, and the sound of it was so beautiful that when you heard it, it was as if your eyes saw her through your ears and she was transformed.”

Ifs Eye Beautiful Sound Laughing Saws Heard Ears Transformed

Book:The Thirteenth Tale

Source: The Thirteenth Tale

“... one of those librarians who rules the stacks with an intimidating scowl, whispers quiet sharply enough to lacerate the tender inner tissues of the ear, and will pursue an overdue-book fine with the ferocity of a rabid ferret.”

Book Enough Fine Quiet Ears Pursue Librarian Intimidating Tissues Overdue Ferocity Ferrets

Book:The Complete Odd Thomas 8-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd, Saint Odd

Source: The Complete Odd Thomas 8-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd, Saint Odd

“How fast the ears learned to tell what sounds meant, much faster than it took the eyes to decipher written words.”

Eye Sound Written Ears Faster Written Word Decipher

Book:Inkdeath

Source: Inkdeath

“I hope you never hear those words. Your mom. She died. They are different than other words. They are too big to fit in your ears. They belong to some strange, heavy, powerful language that pounds away at the side of your head, a wrecking ball coming at you again and again, until finally, the words crack a hole large enough to fit inside your brain. And in so doing, they split you apart.”

Different Enough Bigs Language Sides Powerful Brain Strange Mom Fit Ears Balls Died Heavy Holes Pounds Cracks Splits Again And Again You Again Your Mom

Author:Mitch Albom

“Being a mother is like trying to hold a wolf by the ears,” Gram said. “If you have three or four –or more – chickabiddies, you’re dancing on a hot griddle all the time. You don’t have time to think about anything else. And if you’ve only got one or two, it’s almost harder. You have room left over – empty spaces that you think you’ve got to fill up.”

Ifs Thinking Trying Said Two Mother Three Left Space Rooms Four Empty Ears Harder Hot Dancing Being A Mother Time To Think Empty Space

Author:Sharon Creech

“As the Brotherhood got down to business, he found himself putting his hand on the dog’s big head and stroking the soft fur…playing with an ear…dipping down and ﬁnding the long waves that ﬂowed from the animal’s broad, strong chest. Not that any of that meant he was keeping the the animal, of course. It just felt nice, was all.”

Long Hands Bigs Courses Found Strong Felt Animal Nice Dog Ears Down And Wave Broads Chests Brotherhood Fur Big Heads

Book:Lover Avenged: Number 7 in series

Source: Lover Avenged: Number 7 in series

“She closes the door completely, and I crouch there. I allow myself to fall forward and rest my head on the door frame. My breath bleeds. My heartbeat drowns my ears.”

Fall Doors Ears Breaths Heartbeat

Book:I Am the Messenger

Source: I Am the Messenger

“I tried out the unfamiliar syllables. They fit. They cracked in my ears like a fist through ice.”

Fit Ears Ice Fists Cracked Unfamiliar Syllables

Author:Louise Erdrich

“Because they claim to be concerned with the welfare of whole societies, governments arrogate to themselves the right to pass off as mere abstract profit or loss the human unhappiness that their decisions provoke or their negligence permits. It is a duty of an international citizenship to always bring the testimony of people's suffering to the eyes and ears of governments, sufferings for which it's untrue that they are not responsible. The suffering of men must never be a mere silent residue of policy. It grounds an absolute right to stand up and speak to those who hold power.”

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

Said Understanding Heard Speech Ears

Book:Of Mice and Men

Source: Of Mice and Men

“But man is so addicted to systems and to abstract conclusions that he is prepared deliberately to distort the truth, to close his eyes and ears, but justify his logic at all cost.”

Men Life Eye Cost Logic Ears Prepared Conclusion Abstract His Eyes Justify

Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky

“His right ear still held both studs, and I wondered who had the missing earring. I would have asked, but was afraid he’d tell me Ivy had it.”

Stills Missing Ears Ivy Earrings Studs

Author:Kim Harrison

“This business of really knowing people, deep down, including your own self, it is not something you can learn in school or from a book. It takes your whole being to do it—your eyes and your ears, your brain and your heart. Maybe your heart most of all. —Bobby Goodspeed”

People Heart Book Self Whole Eye School Brain Knowing Ears Including Deep Down

Book:The Misfits

Source: The Misfits

“I love the night passionately. I love it as I love my country, or my mistress, with an instinctive, deep, and unshakeable love. I love it with all my senses: I love to see it, I love to breathe it in, I love to open my ears to its silence, I love my whole body to be caressed by its blackness. Skylarks sing in the sunshine, the blue sky, the warm air, in the fresh morning light. The owl flies by night, a dark shadow passing through the darkness; he hoots his sinister, quivering hoot, as though he delights in the intoxicating black immensity of space.”

“The reader's ear must adjust down from loud life to the subtle, imaginary sounds of the written word. An ordinary reader picking up a book can't yet hear a thing; it will take half an hour to pick up the writing's modulations, its ups and downs and louds and softs.”

Writing Book Sound Hours Half Written Reader Ordinary Picks Ears Loud Subtle Imaginary Ups & Downs Written Word

Author:Annie Dillard

“Your dreaming self seeks to tell you something your waking ears will not hear”

Life Self Dream Ears Waking

Book:Kushiel's Chosen

Source: Kushiel's Chosen

“Catastrophe, riots, factories blowing up, armies in flight, flood - the ear can detect a whole apocalypse in the starry night of the human body.”

Humans Whole Body Night Ears Army Flight Factories Flood Catastrophe Apocalypse Human Body Riot Blowing Up Starry Night

Book:Opium: The Illustrated Diary of His Cure

Source: Opium: The Illustrated Diary of His Cure

“At that moment I was sure. That I belonged in my skin. That my organs were mine and my eyes were mine and my ears, which could only hear the silence of this night and my faint breathing, were mine, and I loved them and what they could do.”

Moments Eye Night Healing Silence Mines Skins Ears Breathing That Moment Organs

Book:You Shall Know Our Velocity

Source: You Shall Know Our Velocity

“Extinguish my eyes, I'll go on seeing you. Seal my ears, I'll go on hearing you. And without feet I can make my way to you, without a mouth I can swear your name. Break off my arms, I'll take hold of you with my heart as with a hand. Stop my heart, and my brain will start to beat. And if you consume my brain with fire, I'll feel you burn in every drop of my blood.”

Ifs Way Feels Heart I Can Hands Eye Names Brain Break Fire Seeing Blood Feet Arms Goes On My Heart Beats Mouths Ears Hearing My Way Swear Seals Break Off

Author:Rainer Maria Rilke

“Freedom! To fill people's mailboxes, eyes, ears and brains with commercial rubbish against their will, television programs that are impossible to watch with a sense of coherence. Freedom! To force information on people, taking no account of their right not to accept it or their right of peace of mind. Freedom! To spit in the eyes and souls of passersby with advertisements.”

“I had trouble listening to adults who didn't really mean anything that they said; it was as if their language poured into my ears only to drain right out a little spigot in the back of my head.”

Ifs Mean Littles Said Language Trouble Listening Adults Ears They Said Really Mean Drains

Book:The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet: A Novel

Source: The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet: A Novel

“He who speaks without an attentive ear is mute.”

Life Speak Ears Mute

Book:The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower

Source: The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower

“Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice; Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.”

“If you were Catholic, you'd singe the ears of the priest you confessed to.”

Ifs Ears Catholic Priests Rubies

Author:Jeaniene Frost

“I wept bitterly, surrendering momentarily to my fear and heartbroken confusion, but slowly I began to quiet a bit, as Jamie stroked my neck and back, offering me the comfort of his broad, warm chest. My sobs lessened and I began to calm myself, leaning tiredly into the curve of his shoulder. No wonder he was so good with horses, I thought blearily, feeling his fingers rubbing gently behind my ears, listening to the soothing, incomprehensible speech. If I were a horse, I'd let him ride me anywhere.”

Ifs Feelings Bits Behinds Wonder Listening Comfort Quiet Speech Ears Horse Fingers Calm Warm Shoulders Confusion Necks Broads Chests Offering Curves Heartbroken Soothing Jamie Outlander

Author:Diana Gabaldon

“I am SHADOW, and my dwelling is near to the Catacombs of Ptolemais, and hard by those dim plains of Helusion which border upon the foul Charonian canal." And then did we, the seven, start from our seats in horror, and stand trembling, and shuddering, and aghast, for the tones in the voice of the shadow were not the tones of any one being, but of a multitude of beings, and, varying in their cadences from syllable to syllable fell duskly upon our ears in the well-remembered and familiar accents of many thousand departed friends.”

Source: The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe: Poems and tales. Eureka, an essay on the material and spiritual universe

“After my brush with the suicidal impulse, I listen with new ears to others when they speak on the subject. I think there are people who were born with that little door open, and they have to go through life knowing that they might jump through it at any moment.”

People Thinking Littles Moments Might Speak Born Knowing Doors Subjects Ears Impulse Brushes Suicidal

Author:Douglas Coupland

“How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank Here we will sit, and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears; soft stillness, and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony”

Night Sound Sleep Sweet Ears Harmony Stillness Moonlight Creeps Merchant Of Venice Sound Of Music Orbs Sweet Music Harmony In Music

Author:William Shakespeare

“Joy is in the ears that hear.”

Book:Power That Preserves

Source: Power That Preserves

“I place my hands over her ears and tip her head back, and kiss her, and try to put my heart into hers, for safekeeping, in case I lose it again.”

Trying Heart Hands Loses Cases My Heart Kissing Ears

Book:The Time Traveler’s Wife

Source: The Time Traveler’s Wife

“His lips slid over her ear. "My mind shares yours. If you're determined to go through with this, then know whatever this takes you, you won't be alone, Tansy. I'm strong. I'll find your mind and I'll bring you back." "Last time I broke into a million pieces." "I'll find each one.”

Ifs Knows Mind Lasts Strong Millions Pieces Share Ears Lips Determined Broke Last Time

Author:Christine Feehan

“Or perhaps a widow found him and took him in: brought him an easy chair, changed his sweater every morning, shaved his face until the hair stopped growing, took him faithfully to bed with her every night, whispered sweet nothings into what was left of his ear, laughed with him over black coffee, cried with him over yellowing pictures, talked greenly about having kids of her own, began to miss him before she became sick, left him everything in her will, thought of only him as she died, always knew he was fiction but believed in him anyway.”

“I got out on the street and started crying the kind of hysterical tears made justifiable only by turning off one’s cell phone, putting it to the ear, and pretending to be told of a death in the family.”

Kind Made Streets Cry Tears Ears Phones Cells Pretending Cell Phone Hysterical

Book:I Was Told There'd Be Cake

Source: I Was Told There'd Be Cake

“A knavish speech sleeps in a fool's ear.”

Sleep Fool Speech Ears

Book:Hamlet, and As you like it, a specimen of a new ed. of Shakespeare [by T. Caldecott]. by T. Caldecott

Source: Hamlet, and As you like it, a specimen of a new ed. of Shakespeare [by T. Caldecott]. by T. Caldecott

“Years on end, and swords on end - where will it end, if our ears unbend - what shall I spend on a wrinkled friend in a pair of tights like a bunch of lights?”

Ifs Years Ends Light Ears Bunch Pairs Tights

Book:Titus Groan

Source: Titus Groan

“I will find you," he whispered in my ear. "I promise. If I must endure two hundred years of purgatory, two hundred years without you - then that is my punishment, which I have earned for my crimes. For I have lied, and killed, and stolen; betrayed and broken trust. But there is the one thing that shall lie in the balance. When I shall stand before God, I shall have one thing to say, to weigh against the rest." His voice dropped, nearly to a whisper, and his arms tightened around me. Lord, ye gave me a rare woman, and God! I loved her well.”

Source: The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood

“A man who has no sense of history is like a man who has no ears or no eyes.”

Men Eye Military Ears Dictator Mein Kampf

Author:Adolf Hitler

“You lay your hand against his skin and just rib his back. Blow into his ear. Press that baby up against your own skin and walk outside with him, where the night air will sourround him, and moonlight fall on his face. Whistle, maybe. Dance. Hum. Pray. (how to calm a crying baby)”

Hands Faces Night Fall Walks Air Cry Baby Praying Skins Ears Presses Lays Calm Blow Moonlight Ribs

Author:Joyce Maynard

“Do you believe in an afterlife?" the gunslinger asked him as Brown dropped three ears of hot corn onto his plate. Brown nodded. "I think this is it.”

Thinking Believe Three Ears Hot Brown Afterlife Plates Corn Gunslinger Deschain

Book:The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger

Source: The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger