overheard her.” “And

There is no friendship that cares about an overheard secret.

— Alexandre Dumas

I overheard this elderly rich woman tell this other elderly rich woman, 'Oh, remind me to send you that article on how good standing…

— Julio Torres

You can throw a novel into focus with one overheard line.

— Joan Didion

“He’d once overheard his mom telling her best friend, Judy, “Almost everything is easier to get into than it is to get out of.”

— Catherine Ryan Hyde

“TOWARD THE END OF the summer I accidentally overheard a conversation that shook me out of my state of blissful ignorance. When we are…

— Patrick Rothfuss

“I’d overheard her several times on her lunch breaks, talking about how she wanted to be married before she turned twenty five. She also…

— Whitney Gracia Williams

“Peace, he knows, can be shattered in a million variations: great visions of the end, a rain of ash, a disease on the wind,…

— Lauren Groff

It reminded me of that tongue-in-cheek quick history of art I'd overheard...Used to be people couldn't draw very well, then they could, and now…

— Charles de Lint

“Mma Makutsi had overheard this remark and had been so cross that her glasses misted over; that was always a bad sign, Mma Ramotswe…

— Alexander McCall Smith

“I overheard the man whisper "I am a lover not a fighter," and to myself I thought I, am in fact, both. For is…

— Tyler Knott Gregson

“I overheard Nona talking about my little buds and how she remembered back when she was developing into a woman, and that was enough…

— Holly Hood

“I started showing them some of Tommy’s greatest acting hits. “Oh my God,” one of them said, laughing. “This is so terrible.” Another one,…

— Greg Sestero

“Observation #3: They gossip. Can you believe it? I overheard Finn and Doug in the backyard talking about some girl named Dawn who blew…

— Kate Brian

“The most insightful thing I ever heard, was overheard. I was waiting for a rail replacement bus in Hackney Wick. These two old women…

— Russell Brand

I write from real life. I am an unrepentant eavesdropper and a collector of stories. I record bits of overheard dialogue.

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie