Quote by Ben Marcus Download Open image ““Maybe this was the quiet before the real fucking quiet.”” — Ben Marcus ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Maybe it’s not that it’s too quiet now, maybe it was too loud before?” — David Moody Copy Share Image
“Quiet is really just a lot of small noises that most people don’t notice.” — Robert Dunbar Copy Share Image
“The silence in the room was so unusually quiet that the beginning of it seemed rather loud when the utter stillness of the end… — Flann O'Brien Copy Share Image
“There's nothing as quiet as that moment before one person is about to tell another something neither of them wants to hear.” — Brock Clarke Copy Share Image
“He was probably being so quiet because he was trying not to say it out loud.” — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
“I’m too quiet. But I’m really not quiet. I just tend to come across that way to new people because I don’t like to… — Lauren Barnholdt Copy Share Image
“Maybe it was I who needed to learn how to be quiet instead of cluttering the moment with too many words.” — Alice Steinbach Copy Share Image
“sometimes silence speaks much louder than words possibly could.” — Eulberg Elizabeth Copy Share Image
To refrain from storytelling is perhaps one of the highest forms of respect we can pay. Those people, with no stories to circle them,… — Ben Marcus Copy Share Image
“..., and he told a story once after intercourse, to the person who had just politely hoisted him while he hyperventilated in their space… — Ben Marcus Copy Share Image
“Terms BEN MARCUS, THE 1. False map, scroll, caul, or parchment. It is comprised of the first skin. In ancient times, it hung from… — Ben Marcus Copy Share Image
“Loud people have thin, hollow bones. They can be broken in half and discarded into a pit. They snap as easily as children do,… — Ben Marcus Copy Share Image
I like big doses of grief when I read: Richard Yates, Flannery O'Connor, Kenzabaro Oe, Thomas Bernhard. — Ben Marcus Copy Share Image
“This first. To understand this. Then maybe." Julian was impressed. The doctor had devised a pretty good tombstone. This first. To understand this. Then… — Ben Marcus Copy Share Image
“Who is setting the bar for what you call accessibility? The definition of “accessible” is “easy to understand,” and so much of the fiction… — Ben Marcus Copy Share Image
“People are considered as areas that resist light, mistakes in the air, collision sweet spots.” — Ben Marcus Copy Share Image
“The true elitists in the literary world are the ones who have become annoyed by literary ambition in any form, who have converted the… — Ben Marcus Copy Share Image
“Together we were something less, which felt like such a relief, to not be ourselves for a while.” — Ben Marcus Copy Share Image
