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“Perhaps it is our fear, that in the silence between stories, in the moment of falling, the fear that we will never find the one story which will save us, and so we lunge for another, and we feel safe again, if only for as long as we are telling it.”

Ifs Feels Long Moments Stories Fall Silence Safe

Author:Nick Flynn

“The two friends stood for a few moments on the windy street corner, not speaking a word, as two travelers, who have lost their way, sometimes stand and admit their perplexity in silence. (O Pioneers!)”

Way Two Sometimes Moments Lost Silence Streets Corners Traveler Pioneers Windy Perplexity Street Corners Two Friends

Book:O Pioneers!: Easyread Large Bold Edition

Source: O Pioneers!: Easyread Large Bold Edition

“I was in the black silence of a medieval street, and blindly I followed its sharp turns, comforted by the height of its narrow tenements, which seemed at any moment capable of falling together, closing this alleyway under indifferent stars like a seam.”

Moments Together Turns Fall Stars Black Silence Streets Capable Height Indifferent Closing Medieval Tenements Alleyways

Book:The Vampire Chronicles Collection: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned

Source: The Vampire Chronicles Collection: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned

“Katy was neither a Methodist nor a Masochist. She was a goddess and the silence of goddesses is genuinely golden. None of your superficial plating. A solid, twenty-two-carat silence all the way through. The Olympian's trap is kept shut, not by an act of willed discretion, but because there's really nothing to say. Goddesses are all of one piece. There's no internal conflict in them. Whereas the lives of people like you and me are one long argument. Desires on one side, woodpeckers on the other. Never a moment of real silence.”

“Have you ever seen the dawn? Not a dawn groggy with lack of sleep or hectic with mindless obligations and you about to rush off on an early adventure or business, but full of deep silence and absolute clarity of perception? A dawning which you truly observe, degree by degree. It is the most amazing moment of birth. And more than anything it can spur you to action. Have a burning day.”

Moments Action Sleep Silence Morning Adventure Birth Degrees Perception Absolutes Obligation Clarity Burning Dawn Spurs Mindless Most Amazing Good Morning Hectic Lack Of Sleep

Author:Vera Nazarian

“..though silence must add intensity to your intimate moments, it must also shrivel your soul to lie beside someone who doesn't talk to you.”

Soul Moments Lying Silence Add Your Soul Intimate Intensity Intimate Moments

Author:Nuala O'Faolain

“After another moment's silence she mumbled that I was peculiar, that that was probably why she loved me but that one day I might disgust her for the very same reason.”

Love Reason Moments Might Love Is Silence One Day Peculiar Disgusting Cynical Love

Author:Albert Camus

“God was gone; it was the silence of his departure. It was a rainy night. It was the myth of the rainy night. Dean was popeyed with awe. This madness would lead nowhere. I didn't know what was happening to me, and I suddenly realized it was only the tea that we were smoking; Dean had bought some in New York. It made me think that everything was about to arrive - the moment when you know all and everything is decided forever.”

Thinking Knows Made Moments Night Silence Gone Forever New York Happenings Decided Madness Myth Tea Smoking Awe Departure Dean Rainy Rainy Night

Book:Road Novels 1957-1960

Source: Road Novels 1957-1960

“The constant reprimands made me hyperconscious of my own performance, and so instead of getting rid of self, I had become embedded in the egoism I was supposed to transcend. Now I was beginning to understand that a silence that is not clamorous with vexation and worried self-regard can become part of the texture of your mind, can seep into you, moment by moment, and gradually change you.”

Mind Made Self Moments My Own Silence Performances Regard Constant Worried Texture Egoism Embedded Vexation

Author:Karen Armstrong

“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

“The library smells like old books — a thousand leather doorways into other worlds. I hear silence, like the mind of God. I feel a presence in the empty chair beside me. The librarian watches me suspiciously. But the library is a sacred place, and I sit with the patron saint of readers. Pulsing goddess light moves through me for one moment like a glimpse of eternity instantly forgotten. She is gone. I smell mold, I hear the clock ticking, I see an empty chair. Ask me now and I'll say this is just a place where you can't play music or eat. She's gone. The library sucks.”

“The training part," I guessed. "Yup. You're going to be Dimitri's partner." A moment of funny silence fell, probably not noticeable to anyone except Dimitri and me. Our eyes met. "Guarding partner," Dimitri clarified unnecessarily, like maybe he too had been thinking of other kinds of partners.”

Thinking Kind Moments Eye Silence Mets Training Partners Guarding Dimitri Thinking Of Others

Author:Richelle Mead

“The sadness, the silence, the darkness, the loneliness... all of it held in a simple little moment. It was just so... I don't know. Just so much.”

Knows Littles Moments Simple Silence Darkness Sadness Loneliness Little Moments

Author:Kevin Brooks

“Anybody else think that was weird?” Shane asked as they got into the car. Eve sent him an exasperated glance; the three of them were, of course, in the backseat. Amelie had the front, with Michael. “Ya think? In general, or in particular?” “Weird that we got through the entire thing, and I didn’t have to hit anybody.” There was a moment of silence. Michael said, as he started the car, “You’re right, Shane. That is strange.”

Thinking Said Moments Three Courses Silence Car Fronts Particular Strange Glances Shane Morganville Vampires Claire Danvers Backseat Eve Rosser Moment Of Silence Amelie

Book:Fade Out: The Morganville Vampires

Source: Fade Out: The Morganville Vampires

“She was unaware that she was somewhat of a celebrity up in heaven. I had told people about her, what she did, how she observed moments of silence up and down the city and wrote small individual prayers in her journal, and the story had travelled so quickly that women lined up to know she had found where they’d been killed. She had fans in heaven..... Meanwhile, for us, she was doing important work, work that most people on Earth were too frightened even too contemplate.”

People Knows Important Moments Stories Earth Found Individual Heaven Prayer Cities Silence Fans Frightened Contemplating Journal Up And Down Important Work Moment Of Silence

Author:Alice Sebold

“Shouldn't that be flipped right-side up?" I asked. "No," she said, eyes on the cards. After several moments of heavy silence, said, "You will destroy that which is undead." I waited about thirty seconds for her to continue, but she didn't. "Wait, that's it?" She nodded. "That's what the cards say to me.”

Said Moments Eye Waiting Sides Silence Heavy Cards Thirty Seconds Flipped Undead

Author:Richelle Mead

“we have to listen to the child we once were, the child who still exists inside us. That child understands magic moments. We can stifle its cries, but we cannot silence its voice.The child we once were is still there. Blessed are the children, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.If we are not reborn if we cannot learn to look at life with the innocence and the enthusiasm o childhood it makes no sense to go on living.”

Ifs Looks Children Stills Moments Heaven Voice Silence Magic Childhood Cry Goes On Blessed Kingdoms Enthusiasm Innocence Reborn Kingdom Of Heaven Magic Moments

Author:Paulo Coelho

“Have you ever heard the wonderful silence just before the dawn? Or the quiet and calm just as a storm ends? Or perhaps you know the silence when you haven't the answer to a question you've been asked, or the hush of a country road at night, or the expectant pause in a roomful of people when someone is just about to speak, or, most beautiful of all, the moment after the door closes and you're all alone in the whole house? Each one is different, you know, and all very beautiful, if you listen carefully.”

“In the silence, she felt the past and the present shift and mix, but that was a mirage. There was no way to comfort the lost boy he'd been back then. But she had the grown male. She had him right in her arms, and for a brief moment of whimsy, she imagined that she was never, ever going to let him go.”

Way Moments Past Lost Felt Silence Boys Arms Comfort Males Mirages Brief Moments Let Him Go Whimsy Lost Boys

Book:J.R. Ward The Black Dagger Brotherhood Novels 5-8

Source: J.R. Ward The Black Dagger Brotherhood Novels 5-8

“Those eerie diamond eyes shifted over to her and she stilled, as if he's willed her to do so. There was a moment of silence. And then in a rough voice the man whose life she saved spoke four words that changed everything...changed her life, changed her destiny: "She. Comes. With. Me.”

Ifs Men Moments Eye Voice Silence Destiny Four Changed Saved Spokes Rough Diamond Eerie Black Dagger Brotherhood Moment Of Silence

Book:Lover Unbound: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood

Source: Lover Unbound: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood

“Bell seated himself behind the desk, motioning for Nancy to stand opposite him. There was tense silence for a moment. Then Bell reached for a desk telephone. "I am going to call the police, Miss Drew, and turn you over to them on a charge of trespassing, breaking, and entering with an attempt to steal." "I wish you would," Nancy replied. "if it is possible over that dummy telephone.”

Ifs Moments Turns Wish Behinds Silence Missing Opposites Police Stealing Bells Desks Entering Telephones Tense Wish You Nancy Dummy Trespassing I Wish You Would Breaking And Entering

Author:Carolyn Keene

“When Christopher finished, there was a moment of silence. Leo looked at Cam expectantly. “Well?” “Well what?” “Now is the time when you dredge up one of your blasted Romany sayings. Something about roosters laying eggs, or pigs dancing in the orchard. It’s what you always do. Let’s have it.” Cam gave him a sardonic glance. “I can’t think of one right now.” “By God, I’ve had to listen to hundreds of them. And Phelan doesn’t have to hear even one?”

Thinking Wells I Can Moments Silence Right Now Dancing Finished Eggs Pigs Glances Orchard Roosters Moment Of Silence Sardonic

Author:Lisa Kleypas

“Your mother sounds like a formidable woman," Valek said into the silence. "You have no idea," Leif replied with a sigh. "Well, if she's anything like Yelena, my deepest sympathies," Valek teased. "Hey!" Leif laughed and the tense moment dissipated. Valek handed Leif his machete. "Do you know how to use it?" "Of course. I chopped Yelena's bow into firewood," Leif joked.”

Source: The Study Series Bundle: Poison Study\Assassin Study\Magic Study\Fire Study

“All my years to this moment All my roads to this wall. All my words to this silence All my pride to this fall. -Songs of Sapphique”

Years Moments Song Fall Silence Wall Pride

Author:Catherine Fisher

“You know, Miss Holly, you look very dramatic like that, backlit by the fire. Very attractive, if I may say so. I know you shared a moment passionne with Artemis which he subsequently fouled up with his typical boorish behavior. Let me just throw something out there for you to consider while we're chasing the probe: I share Artemis's passion but not his boorishness. No pressure; just think about it. This was enough to elicit a deafening moment of silence even in the middle of a crisis, which Orion seemed to be blissfully unaffected by.”

“Ranger picked up and there was a moment of silence as if he was sensing me at the other end, taking my body temperature and heart rate long distance. “Babe,” he finally said. “Do you know the slum apartment building Bobby Sunflower owns on Stark?” “Yes. It’s on the same block as his funeral home.” “That’s the one. I’m going in to look for someone. If you don’t hear from me in a half hour maybe you could send someone to check.” “Is this a smart thing to do?” “Probably not.” “As long as you know,” Ranger said. And he disconnected.”

Source: Sizzling Sixteen

“Then he holds her and for a moment I hear total silence; that totally silent part of a cry that announces that the most horrible grief is going to follow. And it does, and he's muffling it, but I can hear and I want someone to come over and jab her with a sedative because its pitch pierces my soul.”

Want Doe I Can Soul Moments Grief Silence Cry Silent Horrible My Soul Pierce

Author:Melina Marchetta

“There is nothing harder, at moments, than talking to someone who has all the power of silence.”

Moments Silence Talking Harder Talking To Someone

Author:Elizabeth Kostova

“Did he show himself?” Nash asked, and I glanced to my right to see him staring at my father, as fascinated as I was. My dad nodded. “He was an arrogant little demon.” “So what happened?” I asked. “I punched him.” For a moment, we stared at him in silence. “You punched the reaper?” I asked, and my hand fell from the strainer onto the edge of the sink. “Yeah.” He chuckled at the memory, and his grin brought out one of my own. I couldn’t remember the last time I’d seen my father smile. “Broke his nose.”

Littles Moments Shows Hands Lasts Remember Father Memories My Own Silence Happened Dad Yeah My Dad Edges Broke Noses Staring Demon Fascinated Arrogant Last Time Reaper

Author:Rachel Vincent

“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.”

Ifs Firsts Kind Moments Dream Together Night Sound Rooms Silence Happened Heard Middle Strange Quiet Tiny Gaps Middle Of The Night Bad Dream Windowpane

Author:John Boyne

“A few times in my life I've had moments of absolute clarity, when for a few brief seconds the silence drowns out the noise and I can feel rather than think, and things seem so sharp. And the world seems so fresh as though it had all just come into existence. I can never make these moments last. I cling to them, but like everything, they fade. I have lived my life on these moments. They pull me back to the present, and I realize that everything is exactly the way it was meant to be.”

Thinking World Way Feels I Can Moments Seems Lasts Realizing Existence Silence Absolutes Noise Clarity Meant To Be Seconds Fades Were Meant To Be Single Man Moments Of Clarity

Author:Christopher Isherwood

“When friends speak overmuch of times gone by, often it's because they sense their present time is turning them from friends to strangers. Long before the moment came to say goodbye, I think, we said goodbye in other words and ways and silences. Then when the moment came for it at last, we didn't say it as should be said by friends. So now at last, dear Mouse, with many, many years between: goodbye.”

Thinking Way Should Years Long Said Moments Lasts Speak Silence Gone Dear Stranger Goodbye Mice Saying Goodbye Present Time Times Gone By

Author:Frederick Buechner

“Can't you just thank me and get over it?" "Thank you." I waited, fuming and expectant. "You're not going to let it go, are you?" "No." "In that case . . . I hope you enjoy disappointment." We scowled at each other in silence. I was the first to speak, trying to keep myself focused. I was in danger of being distracted by his livid, glorious face. It was like trying to stare down a destroying angel. "Why did you even bother?" I asked frigidly. He paused, and for a brief moment his stunning face was unexpectedly vulnerable. "I don't know," he whispered.”

“That might work," I said. "I'm good at faking it." This led to a couple moments of uncomfortable silence from both of us. "You didn't mean... ?" Morelli asked. "No. Of course not." "Never?" "Maybe once." His eyes narrowed. "Once?" "It's all that comes to mind. It was the time we were late for your Uncle Spud's birthday party." "I remember that. That was great. You're telling me you faked it?" "We were late! I couldn't concentrate. It seemed like the best way to go.”

Way Mind Mean Said Moments Might Eye Remember Courses Party Silence Couple Late Best Way Uncomfortable His Eyes Uncles Birthday Party Faking It

Author:Janet Evanovich

“The unhappiest moment I could never tell you. All our fights blend into each other and are in fact re-enactments of the same fight, in which we punish each other--I with words, Hugh with silence--for being each other. We never needed any more than that.”

Moments Facts Fighting Silence Needed

Author:Alice Munro

“Into the silence rips a sound that makes me let go of Max's hand and cover my ears. It is like the strafe of a bullet, nails on a chalkboard, promises being broken. It's a note I have never heard - this chord of pure pain - and it takes a moment to realize it is coming from me.”

Moments Hands Pain Sound Realizing Silence Heard Broken Promise Pure Letting Go Ears Notes Nails Bullets Chords Rip Max Being Broken Chalkboards

Book:Sing You Home: A Novel

Source: Sing You Home: A Novel

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