Effort Quote by Ann Brashares

...and she felt the words come from some iron place within her that hadn't existed an hour ago. She didn't speak loudly, but there…

— Laini Taylor

“Or she could listen to that other voice, the voice that wasn’t a voice but something so deep, so indivisible from her own consciousness…

— Lisa Unger

What she said was always strange. It had happened long ago. It seemed insignificant. And yet it was something you remembered forever. The words…

— Marguerite Duras

“The instant her voice broke off ceasing to compel my attention, my belief, I felt the basic insincerity of what she had said.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

There was nothing mean about his voice. In fact it was almost too nice. Like she was too dim to grasp whatever was so…

— Lauren Kate

Clearly she was expected to say something, but panic at having to speak stole the thoughts from her head.

— Shannon Hale

Her eyes were distant, and she seemed to be listening to that voice that first told her the story, a mother, sister, or aunt.…

— Shannon Hale

“it was enough just to free the words so that the voices in her head were stilled.”

— Kate Morton

She shouldn't speak her thoughts; nothing good ever came of speaking your thoughts.

— David Nicholls

Her voice was now so shrill only bats would be able to hear it soon, but she had reached a level of indignation that…

— Anonymous

“She spoke loudly in order to be heard above the noise of personal communitainers that were thudding and banging all around them. Some people…

— Ben Elton

“Words, words, words…they were all just jumbling together now as the crowd thickened. She put her hands over her ears and screamed. (From 'The…

— C.G. Faulkner