“perpetual 'hushing' made him feel like a brutal intruder whenever he entered the sacred precincts of Babyland.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“And eventually in that house where everyone, even the fugitive hiding in the cellar from his faceless enemies, finds his tongue cleaving… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
But perhaps, after so much talk and fighting, unspoken words do create a silence in whose gentleness the survivors of good and… — Miljenko Jergovic Copy Share Image
“Mrs Draper took this as an order for her departure, and crept silently out of the room, closing the door behind her… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
“There is no endless silence of infinite space, for in reality there is no space, no silence and no void.” — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
People love talking about writers as storytellers, but I hate being called that: it suggests I got it from my grandmother or… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
The silences express so much and are so crucial in music, and prose does not allow for the creation of these silences,… — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
At first Babel longed for the use of just two words: Yes and No. But he knew that just to utter a… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
“I Ask for Silence" Now they can leave me in peace. Now they grow used to my absence. I am going to… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
The idea for each of the stories in this book came in a moment of belief and was written in a burst… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“The silence of aloneness reveals to their eyes their naked selves and they would escape.” — Kahlil Gibran Copy Share Image
God will of necessity always be a hidden God. His loudest cry is silence. If he does not manifest himself to us,… — Louis Evely Copy Share Image
In the silence of the Cross, the uproar of weapons ceases and the language of reconciliation, forgiveness, dialogue and peace is spoken. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
You are all searching for the silence of the mountain. But you're looking for something outside. This silence is accessible to you… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
“The only consequence of their (employee) silence is that the blind (employer) lead the blind.” — Margaret Heffernan Copy Share Image
The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence. — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“… for it is the fate of a woman Long to be patient and silent, to wait like a ghost that is speechless,… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Clouds passing in the sky, Like thoughts in your own universe. You still know that the sun is shining behind those clouds,… — Nanne Nyander Copy Share Image
Meditation is to be aware of every thought and of every feeling, never to say it is right or wrong, but just… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
He went out with a variety of women, slept with some of them, hated the whole meaningless process. Drinks, dinners, plays and… — Ken Grimwood Copy Share Image
“Frustration, too evident in the cement clench of his jaw. Distance, the ethereal detached from the flesh and bone. Impatience, in the… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
