So, if I ever find myself hankering for the long…

After a long silence, Dodge cleared his throat. "I think I speak for all of us when I say, 'Huh?'" -Dodge(obviously)

— Frank Beddor

It was one of those problematic occasions with long silences, sporadic coughs, and people saying isolated things like, "Well, isn't this nice.

— Terry Pratchett

“You know,’ said Damen, ‘he’s going to let someone eventually. Better all round if it’s you.’ There was a long silence, and then, in…

— C.S. Pacat

“You see, Momo,' he [Beppo Roadsweeper] told her one day, 'it's like this. Sometimes, when you've a very long street ahead of you, you…

— Michael Ende

“How did you find out?” he asked. I dropped the coat I’d been holding. “How do you think? She told me. She couldn’t wait…

— Richelle Mead

For some time she observed a great yellow butterfly, which was opening and closing its wings very slowly on a little flat stone. "What…

— Virginia Woolf

There is an old story about the boy at Eton who committed suicide. The other boys in his house were gathered together and asked…

— Auberon Waugh

“But you won’t abdicate." Of course not. It’s my duty to go on, to maintain the line. I can’t possibly fail in that. It’s…

— Mark Helprin

“He walked out the door and with each step my heart breaks. He'd be gone for days with long silences between each breath. I…

— J.A. ANUM

There are some long silences in Scandinavian and some Japanese films, when the audience knows action is taking place, but the audience hears no…

— John Henrik Clarke

“Let me guess,” Thorne said. “Breaking and entering?” After a long silence of examining the retracting mechanism, the girl wrinkled her nose. “Two counts…

— Marissa Meyer

“Nature abhors a long silence.”

— Lewis Thomas

“Hello... is this Mrs. Fritzi Bevins?' 'Yes, it is.' 'From Pulaski, Wisconsin?' 'Yes.' 'Uh... you don't know me, but I recently received some papers.…

— Fannie Flagg

“Well, " said her daddy, "your careless heedlessness has almost lost me my life. I am now going to give you a spanking." And…

— Betty MacDonald

“When Zev still didn’t say anything, Toby visibly stiffened, seemingly steeling his courage, and then continued speaking. “Is something going on with Jonah?” “We…

— Cardeno C