--- title: "1 Quiet World Quotes By Jeffrey McDaniel" description: "1 Quiet World quotes by Jeffrey McDaniel. Plus more from Jeffrey McDaniel and more Quiet World sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/662/jeffrey-mcdaniel-17829_distance-love_the-quiet-world-in-an-effort-to-get-peop_1226488.jpg" --- > [“The Quiet World In an effort to get people to look into each other’s eyes more, and also to appease the mutes, the government has decided to allot each person exactly one hundred and sixty-seven words, per day. When the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeffrey-mcdaniel/the-quiet-world-in-an-effort-to-get-people-to-look-into-each-other-s/) [Jeffrey McDaniel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeffrey-mcdaniel/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/662/jeffrey-mcdaniel-17829_distance-love_the-quiet-world-in-an-effort-to-get-peop_1226488.jpg) ## More by Jeffrey McDaniel > [I swallowed a hand grenade that never stops exploding.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeffrey-mcdaniel/i-swallowed-a-hand-grenade-that-never-stops-exploding/) [Jeffrey McDaniel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeffrey-mcdaniel/) > [Now I'm just like everybody else, and it's so funny, the way monogamy is funny, the way someone falling down in the street is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeffrey-mcdaniel/now-i-m-just-like-everybody-else-and-it-s-so-funny-the-way-monogamy/) [Jeffrey McDaniel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeffrey-mcdaniel/) > [I've been ignored by prettier women than you, but none who carried the heavy pitchers of silence so far, without spilling a drop.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeffrey-mcdaniel/i-ve-been-ignored-by-prettier-women-than-you-but-none-who-carried-the/) [Jeffrey McDaniel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeffrey-mcdaniel/) > [“Reminiscing in the drizzle of Portland, I notice the ring that’s landed on your finger, a massive insect of glitter, a chandelier shining at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeffrey-mcdaniel/reminiscing-in-the-drizzle-of-portland-i-notice-the-ring-that-s/) [Jeffrey McDaniel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeffrey-mcdaniel/) > [“Hey you, dragging the halo- how about a holiday in the islands of grief? Tongue is the word I wish to have with you.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeffrey-mcdaniel/hey-you-dragging-the-halo-how-about-a-holiday-in-the-islands-of-grief/) [Jeffrey McDaniel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeffrey-mcdaniel/) > [“Sometimes I hate this language with its false words like sunset. The sun does not set. It doesn't rise either. It just stays there…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeffrey-mcdaniel/sometimes-i-hate-this-language-with-its-false-words-like-sunset-the/) [Jeffrey McDaniel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeffrey-mcdaniel/) > [“Disasterology The Badger is the thirteenth astrological sign. My sign. The one the other signs evicted: unanimously. So what? ! Think I want to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeffrey-mcdaniel/disasterology-the-badger-is-the-thirteenth-astrological-sign-my-sign/) [Jeffrey McDaniel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeffrey-mcdaniel/) > [Even when I'm dead, I'll swim through the Earth, like a mermaid of the soil, just to be next to your bones.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeffrey-mcdaniel/even-when-i-m-dead-i-ll-swim-through-the-earth-like-a-mermaid-of-the/) [Jeffrey McDaniel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeffrey-mcdaniel/) > [“When I haven't been kissed in a long time, I walk behind well-dressed women on cold, December mornings and shovel the steamy exhalations pluming…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeffrey-mcdaniel/when-i-haven-t-been-kissed-in-a-long-time-i-walk-behind-well-dressed/) [Jeffrey McDaniel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeffrey-mcdaniel/) > [No rescue boat can save the touches I left bobbing in the wild ocean of your flesh, but if they cut open your heart,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeffrey-mcdaniel/no-rescue-boat-can-save-the-touches-i-left-bobbing-in-the-wild-ocean/) [Jeffrey McDaniel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeffrey-mcdaniel/) > [Once I thought I found love, but then I realized I was just out of cigarettes.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeffrey-mcdaniel/once-i-thought-i-found-love-but-then-i-realized-i-was-just-out-of/) [Jeffrey McDaniel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeffrey-mcdaniel/) > [“I'm sitting opposite you in the bar, waiting for you to uncross your boundaries. I want to rip off your logic and make passionate…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeffrey-mcdaniel/i-m-sitting-opposite-you-in-the-bar-waiting-for-you-to-uncross-your/) [Jeffrey McDaniel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeffrey-mcdaniel/) > [But one kiss levitates above all the others. The intersection of function and desire. The I do kiss. The I’ll love you through a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeffrey-mcdaniel/but-one-kiss-levitates-above-all-the-others-the-intersection-of/) [Jeffrey McDaniel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeffrey-mcdaniel/) > [“The Quiet World In an effort to get people to look into each other’s eyes more, and also to appease the mutes, the government…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeffrey-mcdaniel/the-quiet-world-in-an-effort-to-get-people-to-look-into-each-other-s/) [Jeffrey McDaniel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeffrey-mcdaniel/) > [I want to rip off your logic and make passionate sense to you.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeffrey-mcdaniel/i-want-to-rip-off-your-logic-and-make-passionate-sense-to-you/) [Jeffrey McDaniel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeffrey-mcdaniel/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/quiet-world/jeffrey-mcdaniel/#itemlist", "name": "1 Quiet World Quotes By Jeffrey McDaniel", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“The Quiet World In an effort to get people to look into each other’s eyes more, and also to appease the mutes, the government has decided to allot each person exactly one hundred and sixty-seven words, per day. 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