Bogs Quote by A. Lee Martinez

He was sure that he was not the cause of the abrupt silence. His passage through the canyon had not previously disturbed either birds…

— Dean Koontz

“He retrieved the words from somewhere long forgotten. They floated through the foggy recesses of his mind, plucked from the dark and released into…

— R. W. Patterson

“What was irritating was that they sat there with their heads together as though he had ceased to exist. Neither looked around until he…

— Robert Jordan

“He thought himself awake when he was already asleep. He saw the stars above his face, whirling on their silent and sleepless axis, and…

— T.H. White

He trudged along unknowing what he sought, And whistled as he went, for want of thought.

— John Dryden

“When I had lain awake a little awhile, those extraordinary voices with which silence teems, began to make themselves audible. The closet whispered, the…

— Charles Dickens

“He woke one morning tantalized by an idea: if he could catch the orchard trees motionless for one second -- for half of one…

— David Wroblewski

“The clear stars before him took to shuddering and he knew why; they shuddered at sight of what was behind him. He had never…

— Clemence Housman

“When something baffled him he found that if he kept on worrying it, he got no further, and lost his sense of proportion in…

— Josephine Tey

“What went on in that head of his? I would soon come to understand that he gave voice to only a fraction of the…

— Karen Thompson Walker

“one, with fixed blinds inserted, in place of upper panels. The isolated subterraneousness of the cabin made a certain humming silence to reign there,…

— Herman Melville

“Master Dung’s study was silent. So silent, in fact, that one might have been able to hear a gnat passing air, if only an…

— Sorin Suciu