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“The place is very well and quiet and the children only scream in a low voice.”

Wells Children Home Voice Family Quiet Lows Scream

Author:Lord Byron

“Didn't you have any sadistic nannies who told you these tales to keep you quiet and well behaved at night? Heavens, what's to become of the Empire if governesses have lost their touch for scaring the wits out of their girls?”

Ifs Wells Night Girl Lost Heaven Quiet Wit Tales Empires Nannies Sadistic

Book:A Great and Terrible Beauty

Source: A Great and Terrible Beauty

“If I tell you a secret can you keep it quiet? “Well, I can. I’m not so sure about Doll Girl.”

Ifs Wells I Can Girl Secret Quiet Dolls

Book:The Way Of Shadows: Book 1 of the Night Angel

Source: The Way Of Shadows: Book 1 of the Night Angel

“I learned early that crying out in protest could accomplish things. My older brothers and sister had started to school when, sometimes, they would come in and ask for a buttered biscuit or something and my mother, impatiently, would tell them no. But I would cry out and make a fuss until I got what I wanted. I remember well how my mother asked me why I couldn't be a nice boy like Wilfred; but I would think to myself that Wilfred, for being so nice and quiet, often stayed hungry. So early in life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.”

Source: The Autobiography of Malcolm X

“Actually, I do happen to resemble a hallucination. Kindly note my silhouette in the moonlight." The cat climbed into the shaft of moonlight and wanted to keep talking but was asked to be quiet. "Very well, I shall be silent," he replied, "I shall be a silent hallucination.”

Wells Happens Wanted Talking Quiet Cat Notes Silent Moonlight Hallucinations Silhouettes Keep Talking

Author:Mikhail Bulgakov

“There are some people who cannot help giving. Why? Because they experience a real psychological pleasure in doing so. They don't do it with an eye to their own advantage, they do it on the quiet; they detest doing it openly because that would take away some of the satisfaction. They do it in secret, with quick trembling hands, their breasts rocked by a spiritual well being which they do not themselves understand.”

People Giving Wells Real Helping Hands Eye Spiritual Pleasure Secret Quiet Advantage Satisfaction Psychological Well Being Breasts Trembling Detest Trembling Hands

Author:Knut Hamsun

“It was all very well being told that she could do nothing to make things better. Neverfell did not have the kind of mind that could take that quietly. She did not have the kind of mind that could be quiet at all.”

Mind Wells Kind Quiet Well Being

Book:A Face Like Glass

Source: A Face Like Glass

“He asked Rosemary, why do you love books so much? And I said, Well, I don't know I suppose I love them because they're quiet, and I can take them to the park.”

Knows Wells Said I Can Book Quiet Parks Rosemary

Author:Robin Sloan

“Beauty: "You called me beautiful last night." Beast: "You do not believe me then?" Beauty: "Well - no. Any number of mirrors have told me otherwise." Beast: "You will find no mirrors here, for I cannot bear them: nor any quiet water in ponds. And since I am the only one who sees you, why are you not then beautiful?”

Believe Wells Lasts Beautiful Night Water Numbers Bears Quiet Mirrors Beast Believe In Me Last Night Ponds

Author:Robin McKinley

“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.”

Wells Looks Silence Happened Quiet Killing

Author:J. Lynn