Crickets Quotes

53 quotes by 48 authors

Silence And a deeper silence When the crickets Hesitate — Leonard Cohen
Sometimes, Soraya Sleeping next to me, I lay in bed and listened to the screen door swinging open and shut with the breeze, to the… — Khaled Hosseini
Then I could not help wondering what the watching gods thought of us, with our clever masks and our jokes. What we think of crickets,… — Gene Wolfe
The Little Mute Boy The little boy was looking for his voice. (The king of the crickets had it.) In a drop of water the… — Federico Garcia Lorca
Her eyes were distant, and she seemed to be listening to that voice that first told her the story, a mother, sister, or aunt. Then… — Shannon Hale
Hour of Stars (1920) The round silence of night, one note on the stave of the infinite. Ripe with lost poems, I step naked into… — Federico Garcia Lorca
My sister had taught me to look at the world that way, as a place that glitters, as a place where the calls of the… — Cynthia Kadohata
What gives a wriggle And makes you giggle When you eat'em? Whose weensy little feet Make my heart really beat? Why, it's those little creepy… — Kathryn Lasky
Having a sister or a friend is like sitting at night in a lighted house. Those outside can watch you if they want, but you… — Marilynne Robinson
Even as a child, she had preferred night to day, had enjoyed sitting out in the yard after sunset, under the star-speckled sky listening to… — Dean Koontz
She heard pa shouting,"Jiminy crickets!It's raining fish-hooks and hammer handles! — Laura Ingalls Wilder
Right at that moment it was as if we were the only two people left in the world. And I don't mean that to sound… — Lucy Christopher
I know there is poor and hideous suffering, and I've seen the hungry and the guns that go to war. I have lived pain, and… — Ann Voskamp
We lost the crickets. — Eoin Colfer
That is the earth, he thought. Not a globe thousands of kilometers around, but a forest with a shining lake, a house hidden at the… — Orson Scott Card
We lost the crickets," she said. "Even you can't make that sound tough." ..."I am Butler," he said with a straight-face. "Everything I say sounds… — Eoin Colfer
The stars were out in full, the crickets a little quieter. He had enjoyed talking to Allie and wondered what she'd thought about his life,… — Nicholas Sparks
How earthy old people become --moldy as the grave! Their wisdom smacks of the earth. There is no foretaste of immortality in it. They remind… — Henry David Thoreau
Cicadas, buckling and unbuckling their stomach muscles, yield the sound of someone sharpening scissors. Fall field crickets, the thermometer hounds, add high-pitched tinkling chirps to… — Diane Ackerman
I have lived pain, and my life can tell: I only deepen the wound of the world when I neglect to give thanks the heavy… — Ann Voskamp

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