“There was a long silence while they sat there staring at each other, a moment that was rudely interrupted by the sound… — Philip Caveney Copy Share Image
ON HER DEATHBED, Gertrude Stein is said to have asked, 'What is the answer?' Then, after a long silence, 'What is the… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
Speech after long silence; it is right, All other lovers being estranged or dead . . . That we descant and yet… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
“How would you like it if I said to you, 'It kills me to say this, but you're actually a tiny bit… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
“His eyes - those silver eyes that would probably haunt her for the rest of her life - were bright. "No matter… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
“Snape raised his eyebrows and his tone was sardonic as he asked, “Are you intending to let him kill you?” “Certainly not.… — J.K. Rowling Copy Share Image
“Let me guess,” Thorne said. “Breaking and entering?” After a long silence of examining the retracting mechanism, the girl wrinkled her nose.… — Marissa Meyer Copy Share Image
“Well, " said her daddy, "your careless heedlessness has almost lost me my life. I am now going to give you a… — Betty MacDonald Copy Share Image
Being a Silent Brother is life, Clary Fray. But if you mean I remember my life before the Brotherhood, I do. Clary… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“This is a little awkward," I said, "but my mother just ran over the rabbit." "Ran over?" "As in roadkill. We're not… — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
“So I marshalled the words and opened my mouth, thinking I would hear them. But all I heard was a kind of… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
“I thought there was something weird with all of you, I just couldn't figure out what it was. But now I know.… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
“Isn't there something in living dangerously?' There's a great deal in it,' the Controller replied. 'Men and women must have their adrenals… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Khalid?” It was dark now, and she couldn't see his face, but she knew he was right there, an inch or two… — Varian Krylov Copy Share Image
“When Zev still didn’t say anything, Toby visibly stiffened, seemingly steeling his courage, and then continued speaking. “Is something going on with… — Cardeno C Copy Share Image
“Diyar-e-Ishq Mein Apna Maqam Paida Kar, Naya Zamana, Naye Subah-o-Sham Paida Kar; Khuda Agar Dil-e-Fitrat Shanas De Tujh Ko, Sakoot-e-Lala-o-Gul Se Kalaam… — Muhammad Iqbal Copy Share Image
“How did you find out?” he asked. I dropped the coat I’d been holding. “How do you think? She told me. She… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
“Sorry about the question thing," Butch said to the black robes. "But I just... I'm glad I know what's in my veins.… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
“We drove 22 miles into the country around Farmington. There were meadows and apple orchards. White fences trailed through the rolling fields.… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“Cronkite had mastered the intentional pause, the need for frozen seconds of long silence at certain historic moments. Nobody before or after… — Douglas Brinkley Copy Share Image
Some years ago, not long after I moved to Los Angeles from New York, I attended a television industry party. When a… — Carol Muske-Dukes Copy Share Image
“Hello... is this Mrs. Fritzi Bevins?' 'Yes, it is.' 'From Pulaski, Wisconsin?' 'Yes.' 'Uh... you don't know me, but I recently received… — Fannie Flagg Copy Share Image
“I pulled the phone toward me and punched in the number of the sheriff's office in Flat Mesa. The deputy at the… — Allyson James Copy Share Image
All right then," said the savage defiantly, I'm claiming the right to be unhappy." "Not to mention the right to grow old… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“A MAN AND HIS YOUNG WIFE WERE IN COURT BATTLING FOR THE CUSTODY OF THEIR CHILDREN. THE MOTHER ARGUED TO THE JUDGE… — Mark A. Barondess Copy Share Image
“...it was only after a long silence, when he said, in a hesitating voice, "I suppose you fellows remember I did once… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“One gave oneself time, one lost oneself, one followed the sun, one fell asleep so often on a bed of straw, and… — Claude Esteban Copy Share Image
“Daddy had only just got into bed when, from the next room, a small voice called, "Hello?" "What do you want?" Daddy… — Francis Gay Copy Share Image
“you.’ He laid his hand on Frodo’s shoulder. ‘I will help you bear this burden, as long as it is yours to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is an old story about the boy at Eton who committed suicide. The other boys in his house were gathered together… — Auberon Waugh Copy Share Image
“Words failed him again; he began to stammer in his unsuccessful attempt to express the first vague stirrings of the future he… — Émile Zola Copy Share Image
“Blue Eyes, you will drink?” Loretta waved him away. A long silence settled over them. Then Hunter grasped her chin and forced… — Catherine Anderson Copy Share Image
“But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness, I… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“I will not lift my blade against you.” “But what if you didn’t know? What if you went on a raid and… — Catherine Anderson Copy Share Image
“So tell us," says Connor, "in The World According to Hayden, when do we start to live?" A long silence from Hayden,… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
“If you wish to examine me to determine the sex of the child, you may do so.” Her chin lifted. “But as… — Christine Feehan Copy Share Image
“There is a song within us all. I know this now because in the long silences of the open ocean I have… — Paul Heiney Copy Share Image
“What if there was an Indian attack? What if I--” She turned her head to study him. “I might look down the… — Catherine Anderson Copy Share Image
“No matter what I do, I really do love you Celaena." The word hit her like a stone to the head. He'd… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
“So the boy…the boy must die?” asked Snape quite calmly. “And Voldemort himself must do it, Severus. That is essential.” Another long… — J.K. Rowling Copy Share Image
