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“Everywhere was singing, all over the house was singing, and outside the house was alive with singing, and the very air was song.”

Song House Alive Air Singing

Book:HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY

Source: HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY

“The Smiths are singing and someone says "Turn that gay angst music off.”

Turns Gay Singing Angst

Book:The Rules of Attraction

Source: The Rules of Attraction

“Sendak is in search of what he calls a "yummy death". William Blake set the standard, jumping up from his death bed at the last minute to start singing. "A happy death," says Sendak. "It can be done." He lifts his eyebrows to two peaks. "If you're William Blake and totally crazy.”

Ifs Two Done Lasts Crazy Minutes Bed Singing Standards Lifts Jumping Eyebrows Blake Last Minute Death Bed Yummy Happy Death

Author:Maurice Sendak

“Big Brother isn't watching. He's singing and dancing. He's pulling rabbits out of a hat. Big Brother's busy holding your attention every moment you're awake. He's making sure you're always distracted. He's making sure you're fully absorbed. He's making sure your imagination withers. Until it's as useful as your appendix. He's making sure your attention is always filled. And this being fed, it's worse than being watched. With the world always filling you, no one has to worry about what's in your mind. With everyone's imagination atrophied, no one will ever be a threat to the world.”

World Mind Moments Bigs Imagination Attention Worry Brother Singing Filled Dancing Threat Busy Awake Hats Feds Pulling Filling Rabbits Distracted Singing And Dancing Appendix

Author:Chuck Palahniuk

“Wow,” Kylie muttered, and grinned. “Yeah, wow.” Della leaned in closer. “I think Perry just grew a pair.” Kylie bit down on her lip to keep from laughing. “If this was a movie, there would be some music playing in the background.” “I could sing,” Della chuckled. “And ruin it,” Kylie teased back. “I’ve heard you singing in the shower.” Both grinning, they looked back at the kissing couple.”

Ifs Thinking Would Be Bits Laughing Heard Grew Couple Kissing Singing Yeah Lips Backgrounds Ruins Pairs Wow Showers Grinning Singing In The Shower

Book:Awake at Dawn

Source: Awake at Dawn

“Right now I am full of greed and vanity, so I cannot live with you like before. But may be we can meet like this. I think just being together and talking would be nice. But when we grow old, when greed and vanity will be completely gone, when I will be tired of singing can I return to that place too?”

Thinking May Would Be Together Grows Talking Gone Nice Return Right Now Singing Tired Greed Vanity Just Being Being Nice Being Together

Author:Ai Yazawa

“What a psalm the storm was singing, and how fresh the smell of the washed earth and leaves, and how sweet the still small voices of the storm!”

Stills Earth Voice Sweet Singing Smell Storm Psalms Small Voice

Book:John Muir: His Life and Letters and Other Writings

Source: John Muir: His Life and Letters and Other Writings

“The melancholy river bears us on. When the moon comes through the trailing willow boughs, I see your face, I hear your voice and the bird singing as we pass the osier bed. What are you whispering? Sorrow, sorrow. Joy, joy. Woven together, like reeds in moonlight.”

Together Faces Joy Voice Bears Sorrow Bed Moon Singing Bird Rivers Melancholy Your Face Moonlight Woven Whispering Reeds

Book:The String Quartet

Source: The String Quartet

“The birds that were singing in the dew-drenched garden seemed to be telling the flowers about her.”

Flower Singing Bird Garden Dew

Book:The Picture of Dorian Gray: An Annotated, Uncensored Edition

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray: An Annotated, Uncensored Edition

“I don't have a talent, unless you count hunting illegally, which they don't. Or maybe singing, which I wouldn't do for the Capitol in a million years. My mother tried to interest me in a variety of suitable alternatives from a list Effie Trinket sent her. Cooking, flower arranging, playing the flute. None of them took, although Prim had a knack for all three. Finally Cinna stepped in and offered to help me develop my passion for designing clothes, which really required development since it was non-existent.”

Source: Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)

“I'm screaming for help and everybody's acting as if I'm singing Ethel Merman covers.”

Ifs Helping Acting Singing Acting As If

Author:David Foster Wallace

“Will sat where he was, gazing at the silver bowl in front of him; a white rose was floating in it, and he seemed prepared to stare at it until it went under. In the Kitchen Bridget was still singing one of her awful sad songs; the lyrics drifted in through the door: "Twas on an evening fair I went to take the air, I heard a maid making her moan; Said, 'Saw ye my father? Or ye my mother? Or saw ye my brother John? Or saw ye the lad that I love best, And his name it is Sweet William?" I may murder her, Tessa thought. Let her make a song about that.”

Source: Clockwork Prince

“I laughed and pointed out that "Hash Browns Mean Nothing Without You" was a pretty good name for a band. "Or a song," the Duke said, and then she started singing all glam rock, a glove up to her face holding an imaginary mic as she rocked out an a cappella power ballad. "Oh, I deep fried for you / But now I weep 'n' cry for you / Oh, babe, this meal was made for two / And these hash browns mean nothing, oh these hash browns mean nothing, yeah these HASH BROWNS MEAN NOTHIN' without you.”

Mean Made Said Two Faces Song Names Rocks Cry Band Singing Yeah Meals Laughed Imaginary Without You Gloves Babe Dukes Ballads Mics Glam Hash Glam Rock

Book:Let It Snow: Three Holiday Stories

Source: Let It Snow: Three Holiday Stories

“Though you are three times more beautiful than angels, Though you are the sister of the river willows, I will kill you with my singing, Without spilling your blood on the ground. Not touching you with my hand, Not giving you one glance, I will stop loving you, But with your unimaginable groans I will finally slake my thirst. From her, who wandered the earth before me, Crueler than ice, more fiery than flame, From her, who still exists in the ether— From her you will set me free.”

Giving Stills Hands Earth Beautiful Three Blood Singing Angel Rivers Ice Flames Touching Thirst Glances Three Times Loving You Fiery Unimaginable Spilling Stop Loving You Touching You

Author:Anna Akhmatova

“(Talking about her grandmother Marjorie Finlay)I can remember her singing, the thrill of it," she said. "She was one of my first inspirations.The people around me provided all the inspiration I needed. Everything I wrote (at that time) came from that experience, what I observed happening around me.”

People Firsts Said I Can Inspiration Remember Talking Needed Singing Happenings Grandmother Thrill

Author:Taylor Swift

“So . . . middle school? Awkward.Having a hobby that's different from everyone else's? Awkward. Singing the national anthem on weekends instead of going to sleepovers? More awkward. Braces? Awkward. Gain a lot of weight before you hit the growth spurt? Awkward. Frizzy hair, don't embrace the curls yet? Awkward. Try to straighten it? Awkward!So many phases!”

“(Talks about Lucky You) "The song was about a girl who didn't fit in and she didn't care and she was different than everyone else. I think there's a long chorus of me singing "Do do do do do do do do do do". It's very young and I look back and it's kind of interesting to hear those kind of storylines and the lyrics that I used to write compared to the lyrics that I write now.”

Thinking Writing Looks Kind Long Different Care Young Used Song Girl Interesting Fit Lucky Singing Chorus Storyline Lucky You

Author:Taylor Swift

“Singing when no one else is around is always good. I especially like belters. Good, loud singing is probably better medicine than half the stuff they sell in pill bottles, and it's cheaper, too. I also think people should never turn down an opportunity to hold a baby. There's something about the feel of a new baby in your arms that just fixes you.”

People Thinking Feels Should Turns Opportunity Stuff Half Baby Arms Singing Sells Medicine Loud Bottles Pills Cheaper New Baby

Book:The Secret Lives of Dresses

Source: The Secret Lives of Dresses

“There must be always remaining in every life, some place for the singing of angels, some place for that which in itself is breathless and beautiful.”

Beautiful Singing Angel Breathless

Author:Howard Thurman

“But they're already singing our praises!" "They are Americans. They toot their horns for anything.”

Singing Praise Horns

Book:Goliath

Source: Goliath

“Haven’t you heard of the music of the spheres?” asked the dragon. “It’s the music that space makes to itself. All the spirits inside all the stars are singing. I’m a star spirit. I sing too. The music of the spheres is what makes space so peaceful.”

Spirit Stars Space Heard Havens Singing Peaceful Dragons Spheres

Book:The Iron Man

Source: The Iron Man

“The beloved's innocence brutalizes the lover. As the singing of a mad person behind you on the train enrages you, its beautiful animal-like teeth shining amid black planes of paint. As Helen enrages history. Senza uscita.”

Persons Beautiful Black Animal Behinds Lovers Singing Mad Shining Train Paint Teeth Innocence Planes Beloved Behind You Helen Mad Person

Book:Plainwater: Essays and Poetry

Source: Plainwater: Essays and Poetry

“Those hours given over to basking in the glow of an imagined future, of being carried away in streams of promise by a love or a passion so strong that one felt altered forever and convinced that even the smallest particle of the surrounding world was charged with purpose of impossible grandeur; ah, yes, and one would look up into the trees and be thrilled by the wind- loosened river of pale, gold foliage cascading down and by the high, melodious singing of countless birds; those moments, so many and so long ago, still come back, but briefly, like fireflies in the perfumed heat of summer night.”

Source: Collected Poems

“If everyone started off the day singing, just think how happy they'd be.”

Ifs Thinking Song Music Singing

Author:Lauren Myracle

“New start or not, there was a line to be drawn, and that line was singing musicals to yourself as serious psychological motivation.”

Motivation Lines Serious Singing Psychological New Start

Book:Scarlett Fever

Source: Scarlett Fever

“The fish in the water is silent, the animals on the earth is noisy, the bird in the air is singing. But man has in him the silence of the sea, the noise of the earth and the music of the air.”

Men Earth Water Animal Silence Air Sea Singing Bird Silent Fishes Noise Noisy

Author:Rabindranath Tagore

“My heart is like a singing bird Whose nest is in a water'd shoot; My heart is like an apple-tree Whose boughs are bent with thick-set fruit; My heart is like a rainbow shell That paddles in a halcyon sea; My heart is gladder than all these, Because my love is come to me. Raise me a daïs of silk and down; Hang it with vair and purple dyes; Carve it in doves and pomegranates, And peacocks with a hundred eyes; Work it in gold and silver grapes, In leaves and silver fleurs-de-lys; Because the birthday of my life Is come, my love is come to me.”

“In this Music [the singing of the angels in harmony] the World was begun; for Iluvatar made visible the song of the Ainur,and they beheld it as a light in the darkness.”

World Made Light Song Darkness Singing Angel Harmony Visible Darkness To Light

Author:J. R. R. Tolkien

“I can do this, I tell myself firmly. I can be attracted to him. It's just a matter of self control and possibly also getting very drunk. So I lift my glass and take several huge gulps. I can feel the bubbles surging into my head, singing happily "I'm going to be a millionaire's wife! I'm going to be a millionaire's wife!" And when I look back at Tarquin, he already looks a bit more attractive. Alcohol is obviously going to be the key to our marital status.”

Feels Looks I Can Self Matter Bits Can Do Wife Huge Keys Singing Glasses Alcohol Drunk Lifts Attractive Bubbles Self Control Millionaire I Can Do This

Author:Sophie Kinsella

“And who shall say--whatever disenchantment follows--that we ever forget magic; or that we can ever betray, on this leaden earth, the apple-tree, the singing, and the gold?”

Earth Forget Magic Tree Singing Gold Apples Betray Apple Trees Disenchantment

Book:Look Homeward, Angel

Source: Look Homeward, Angel

“...and suddenly you started singing out your love for me. My name and everything, loud enough to reach the top floors of all the buildings. I should have told you to stop, but I didn’t want you to stop. I didn’t mind if your love for me woke people up. I didn’t mind if it somehow sneaked into their sleep.”

People Ifs Want Should Mind Enough Names Sleep Building Singing Should Have Loud

Book:The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel

Source: The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel

“When you smell our candles burning, what does it make you think of, my child?" Winterfell, she might have said. I smell snow and smoke and pine needles. I smell the stables. I smell Hodor laughing, and Jon and Robb battling in the yard, and Sansa singing about some stupid lady fair. I smell the crypts where the stone kings sit. I smell hot bread baking. I smell the godswood. I smell my wolf. I smell her fur, almost as if she were still beside me. "I don't smell anything," she said.”

“Suddenly he saw himself as others in the crowd must surely see him; a silent, solitary figure, standing apart from the rest. He looked out at the hoardes of singing, laughing people and felt more alone than he'd ever felt in his life. Was this how it was going to be then? Was this who he was? A man apart from his fellows, making the journey through life alone?”

People Men Felt Laughing Saws Journey Figures Singing Standing Fellows Silent Crowds Shy Solitary Journey Through Life Standing Apart

Author:Mary Lawson

“Little Words When you are gone, there is nor bloom nor leaf, Nor singing sea at night, nor silver birds; And I can only stare, and shape my grief In little words. I cannot conjure loveliness, to drown The bitter woe that racks my cords apart. The weary pen that sets my sorrow down Feeds at my heart. There is no mercy in the shifting year, No beauty wraps me tenderly about. I turn to little words- so you, my dear, Can spell them out.”

Years Heart Littles I Can Night Turns Grief Gone Sea My Heart Sorrow Shapes Singing Bird Mercy Dear Bitter Staring Silver Pens Spells Weary Leafs Woe Shifting Wraps Cords Loveliness Racks

Book:Not So Deep as a Well

Source: Not So Deep as a Well

“O God, when I listen to the voices of animals, the sounds of trees, the murmurings of water, the singing of birds, the whistling of the wind, or the boom of thunder, I see in them evidence of Your unity; I feel that You are supreme power, omniscience, supreme knowledge, and supreme justice. I recognize You, O God, in the trials I am going through. May Your pleasure be my pleasure, too. May I be Your joy, the joy that a Father feels for a son. And may I think of You calmly and with determination, even when I find it hard to say I love You.”

“From barren brown stems to glistening leaf-buds; from the leaf-buds to snowy virginity of bloom…It was like a flute song forgotten in another existence and remembered again. What? How? Why? This singing she heard that had nothing to do with her ears. The rose of the world was breathing out smell. It followed her through all her waking moments and caressed her in her sleep.”

World Moments Song Sleep Existence Heard Singing Ears Rose Forgotten Smell Breathing Remembered Brown Waking Stem Leafs Bud Barren Virginity Flutes Snowy

Book:Their Eyes Were Watching God

Source: Their Eyes Were Watching God

“A lot of people are singing about how screwed up the world is, and I don't think that everybody wants to hear about that all the time.”

People Thinking World Want Women Singing Screwed Up Writing Music Music Writing

Author:Mariah Carey

“Basically, I started singing when I started talking. Music has just been my saving grace my whole life.”

Whole Talking Grace Singing Whole Life Saving Saving Grace

Author:Mariah Carey

“It's the great male fantasy-all it takes is one dance to know that she's the one. All it takes is the sound of her song from the tower, or a look at her sleeping face. And right away you know-this is the girl in your head, sleeping or dancing or singing in front of you. Yes, girls want princes, but boys want their princesses just as much.”

Knows Want Looks Faces Song Girl Sound Sleep Boys Fantasy Fronts Singing Dancing Males Princess Towers

Book:Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

“This is the story of the curse and the kiss, the demon and the girl. It's a love story with dancing and death in it, and singing and souls and shadows reeled out on kite strings.”

Soul Stories Girl Kissing Singing Shadow Dancing Love Story Curse Demon Strings Kites

Book:Lips Touch: Three Times

Source: Lips Touch: Three Times

“A dog — a dog teaches us so much about love. Wordless, imperfect love; love that is constant, love that is simple goodness, love that forgives not only bad singing and embarrassments, but misunderstandings and harsh words. Love that sits and stays and stays and stays, until it finally becomes its own forever. Love, stronger than death. A dog is a four-legged reminder that love comes and time passes and then your heart breaks.”

“Talent? That's not talent. Talent is Liza Minnelli tap dancing and singing at the same time. What I just saw was devastation. Dying man on the cross. Salvation in B minor.”

Men Saws Dying Talent Singing Crosses Salvation Dancing Minors Devastation Tap Dancing

Book:How to Kill a Rock Star

Source: How to Kill a Rock Star

“Sometimes,' he whispered at last, 'sometimes, I dream I am singing, and I wake from it with my throat aching.' He couldn't see her face, or the tears that prickled at the corners of her eyes. 'What do you sing?' she whispered back. She heard the shush of the linen pillow as he shook his head. 'No song I've ever heard, or know,' he said softly. 'But I know I'm singing it for you.”

Knows Said Sometimes Dream Eye Lasts Faces Song Heard Tears Singing Corners Throat Her Eyes Pillow Linen

Book:The Outlander Series Bundle: Books 5, 6, 7, and 8: The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood

Source: The Outlander Series Bundle: Books 5, 6, 7, and 8: The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood

“Do you miss Wales?” Tessa inquired. Will shrugged lightly. “What’s to miss? Sheep and singing,” he said. “And the ridiculous language. Fe hoffwn i fod mor feddw, fyddai ddim yn cofio fy enw.” “What does that mean?” “It means ‘I wish to get so drunk I no longer remember my own name,’ Quite useful.”

Mean Doe Said Remember Names Language Wish My Own Missing Singing Ridiculous Drunk Sheep Wales

Author:Cassandra Clare

“At John Schlesinger's funeral at a synagogue in St John's Wood some years ago the person I stood next to said to me encouragingly, 'Come on, Stephen - you're not singing. Have a go!' 'Believe me, Paul, you don't want me to,' I said. Besides, I was having a much better time listening to him. 'No. Go on!' So I joined in the chorus. 'You're right,' Paul McCartney conceded. 'You can't sing.”

Want Years Believe Persons Said Next Listening Goes On Singing Years Ago Woods Funeral Want Me Believe In Me Chorus Synagogue Conceded

Book:The Fry Chronicles: An Autobiography

Source: The Fry Chronicles: An Autobiography

“Will: 'Singing the praises of our fair city? We treat you well here, don't we, James? I doubt I'd have that kind of luck in Shanghai. What do you call us there again?' Jem: 'Yang guizi ... foreign devils.”

Wells Kind Cities Doubt Singing Devil Fairs Treats Praise Luck Jem Yang Shanghai

Author:Cassandra Clare

“I should perhaps warn you that I am about to faint from anxiety and general depression, though. The film I saw last night was especially grueling, a teen-age beach musical. I almost collapsed during the singing sequence on surfboard.”

Should Age Lasts Film Night Saws Anxiety Singing Musical Beach Last Night Sequence

Book:A Confederacy of Dunces

Source: A Confederacy of Dunces

“There is another alphabet Whispering from every leaf, Singing from every river, Shimmering from every sky.”

Sky Singing Rivers Leafs Whispering Alphabet

Author:Dejan Stojanovic

“Every night in my dreams, a man appeared from the darkest recesses of my mind, as if he'd been waiting for me to fall asleep. His mouth, full, masculine, would sear my flesh. His tongue, like flames across my skin, would send tiny sparks quaking through my body. Then he would dip south, and the heavens would open and a chorus singing hallelujah would ring out in perfect harmony.”

Source: First Grave on the Right

“The Light Queen’s voice stilled the turbulent waves of my soul, singing calm and grace to every fiber of my being. Neamh. Ah, there, I was pissed off again”

Soul Light Voice Grace Singing Calm Wave My Soul Queens Fiber Pissed Off

Author:Kiersten White