“Absence does not so much make the heart grow fonder as give the heart time to integrate what it has not previously absorbed, time to make sense of what happened too quickly to have any meaning in the instant. This is always true. If it is in absence that people forget each other, it is also in the quiet pause of absence that, minds running in symmetry, people come to know each other; there is sometimes as much intimacy in the span of continents as in the shared hours before dawn.” PeopleIfsKnowsGivingMindHeartDoeSometimesRunningGrowsHoursForgetHappenedQuietAbsenceIntimacyMake SenseDawnInstantContinentsPausesIntegratingSymmetry Book:A Stone Boat: A Novel Source: A Stone Boat: A Novel
“Geoffrey's personal style was very different from mine. He has a lovely speaking voice, a quiet speaking voice. But at Cabinet we always reported on foreign affairs - we always had this quiet voice. It was so quiet sometimes I had to say 'speak up'. And he gave it in a way which wasn't exactly scintillating. And you know, foreign affairs are interesting. They affect everything that happened to our own way of life, and they are exciting. And so we just diverged.” KnowsWayDifferentSometimesSpeakVoiceInterestingHappenedStyleMinesQuietExcitingAffairLovelyCabinetsPersonal StyleForeign AffairsQuiet Voice Author:Margaret Thatcher
“Sometimes God does something dramatic to get our attention. That's what happened to me in 1975. My family and I were enjoying the peace and quiet of a borrowed cabin in the Colorado Rockies. I was stretched out on a lounge chair in the midday warmth, praying and thinking. I was considering how we Christians - not just the mission I was part of, but all of us - could turn the world around for Jesus.” ThinkingWorldDoeSometimesChristianTurnsJesusEnjoyAttentionHappenedPrayingQuietMy FamilyMissionsDramaticChairsWarmthConsideringBorrowedColoradoCabinsPeace And Quiet Author:Loren Cunningham
“I hadn't made that movie before and when I ever met the real Joy Mangano, which happened because De Niro insisted we meet her and her father, that's what she felt like to us. She impressed us with her quiet, serene authority with herself.” MadeRealJoyFatherFeltHappenedMetsQuietAuthorityImpressedSereneDe NiroReal Joy Author:David O. Russell
“When you're in the more deeper stages of sleep - REM sleep, your body is quiet, but your mind is actually very active. So it's a time when your body and your brain is restoring itself. It's repairing any cell damage that happened during the day, it's really repairing, like I said, repairing your body, but also helps with digestion, helps with memory.” MindSaidHelpingBodyMemoriesSleepBrainHappenedStageQuietDeeperActiveYour BodyCellsDamageRestoringDigestionRepairing Author:Shelby Harris
“When the spent sun throws up its rays on cloud And goes down burning into the gulf below, No voice in nature is heard to cry aloud At what has happened. Birds, at least must know It is the change to darkness in the sky. Murmuring something quiet in her breast, One bird begins to close a faded eye; Or overtaken too far from his nest, Hurrying low above the grove, some waif Swoops just in time to his remembered tree. At most he thinks or twitters softly, 'Safe! Now let the night be dark for all of me. Let the night be too dark for me to see Into the future. Let what will be, be.” ThinkingKnowsEyeNightVoiceDarkDarknessSunHappenedHeardTreeSkyCryQuietSafeLowsBirdCloudsBurningRememberedBreastsRaysNestsFadedGroveHurryingMurmuring Book:Complete Poems of Robert Frost: 1949 Source: Complete Poems of Robert Frost: 1949
“Nearly every morning, a certain woman in our community comes running out of her house with her face white and her overcoat flapping wildly. She cries out, "Emergency, emergency," and one of us runs to her and holds her until her fears are calmed. We know she is making it up; nothing is has really happened to her. But we understand, because there is hardly one of us who has no been moved at some time to do just what she has done, and every time, it has taken all our strength, and even the strength of our friends and families, too, to keep us quiet.” KnowsDoneRunningFacesCertainHouseCommunityWhiteMorningTakenHappenedCryQuietMovedEvery MorningFamily And FriendsEmergenciesOur CommunityFlappingOvercoat Author:Lydia Davis
“The first thing he noticed was how quiet it was. This was nothing like the kind of quiet he heard when he woke up in the middle of the night after a bad dream. When that happened, there were always strange, unidentifiable sounds seeping into his room from the tiny gaps where the windowpanes weren't sealed together correctly. At those moments he could always tell there was life outside, even if all that life was fast asleep. It was a silence that wasn't silence at all.” IfsFirstsKindMomentsDreamTogetherNightSoundRoomsSilenceHappenedHeardMiddleStrangeQuietTinyGapsMiddle Of The NightBad DreamWindowpane Author:John Boyne
“But there would be no confrontation the next day. And for Tommy Williams, there would be no school, either. Because the moment he walked through the gap in the stones to leave the circle, something quiet unexpected happened. Tommy, holding tightly on to his rock, took the step that divided the inside of the circle from the outside - and disappeared. The woods suddenly felt colder than usual. The darkness hung more heavily. The amber was gone - and now nothing would ever be the same.” MomentsWould BeSchoolNextFeltStepsDarknessGoneHappenedRocksQuietStonesWoodsCirclesUnexpectedGapsDividedUsualHungNext DayConfrontationAmber Author:Liz Kessler
“Nothing feeds forgetfulness better than war.... We all keep quiet and they try to convince us that what we've seen, what we've done, what we've learned about ourselves and about others, is an illusion, a passing nightmare. Wars have no memory, and nobody has the courage to understand them until there are no voices left to tell what happened, until the moment comes when we no longer recognize them and they return, with another face and another name, to devour what they left behind.” TryingWarDoneMomentsFacesNamesLeftVoiceMemoriesBehindsHappenedReturnQuietIllusionPassingPassingsConvinceNightmareLeft BehindForgetfulnessNo MemoryConvince Us Author:Carlos Ruiz Zafon
“Dad at breakfast today being very quiet. I notice he is clean shaven. I said to him, "Vati, what has happened to the little beaver that used to live on the end of your chin?” LittlesSaidEndsTodayUsedHappenedDadQuietCleanBreakfastChinsBeaversClean Shaven Author:Louise Rennison
“Somhow those Ten Men -- at the time they were called Recruiters, of course -- discovered that Constance had been at the library. Most likely one of their informants saw her come out, because it was on that very day that the brutes showed up and threatened the librarians. Who told them nothing, incidentally.' 'The same thing happened in Holland,' Kate reflected. 'You'd think these guys would learn their lesson -- librarians know how to keep quiet.' 'It helps to ask politely,' said Mr. Benedict” ThinkingKnowsMenSaidHelpingGuyCoursesAsksKnow HowSawsHappenedLessonsQuietTenLibraryThreatenedLibrarianBrutesKateHollandInformants Author:Trenton Lee Stewart
“The silence was killing me. And that's all there ever was. Silence. It was all I knew. Keep quiet. Pretend nothing had happened, that nothing was wrong. And look how well that was turning out.” WellsLooksSilenceHappenedQuietKilling Author:J. Lynn