Whisper Quotes
623 Whisper quotes by 424 unique authors
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Perhaps the whisper was born before lips, And the leaves in treelessness circled and flew, And those, to whom we impart our experience as bliss,…
— Osip Mandelstam
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We believe in shouting for those who can only whisper, in defending those who cannot defend themselves.
— Veronica Roth
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Saying my story makes me want to change it, make it sound pretty the way I do with the stories I tell the workers. I'd…
— Shannon Hale
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Word by word, the language of women so often begins with a whisper.
— Terry Tempest Williams
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Nothing in the world is so soft and pleasing to the touch, as the skin of a woman's thigh. No flower, feather or fabric, can…
— Gregory David Roberts
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Duty doesn't need to call; it only needs to whisper. And if you heed the call, no matter what happens, you have no need for…
— Dean Koontz
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Though Will was saying earlier,” Tessa added, “that heroes all come to bad ends, and he could not imagine why anyone would want to be…
— Cassandra Clare
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From the time I began to read, as a child, I loved to feel their heft in my hand and the warm spot caused by…
— Rita Dove
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I whisper and you close your eyes. I speak and you turn away. If I scream, will you finally hear me beg you to hold…
— Ellen Hopkins
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I push against the tree and run away, stumbling, the unreal night playing with me, gravity pulling from below, behind, above, making me fall. And…
— Mohsin Hamid
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No one's perfect," I whisper. "It doesn't work that way. One bad thing goes away, and another bad thing replaces it." I traded cowardice for…
— Veronica Roth
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I thought research would be more glamorous, somehow. I'd give the librarian a secret code word and he'd give me the one book I needed…
— Libba Bray
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On his first hand he wore rings of stone, Iron, Amber, Wood and Bone. There were rings unseen on his second hand, One blood in…
— Patrick Rothfuss
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So, tell me,” he whispers. “How fast did you climb those fourteen stories?” Thomas makes a disapproving sound in his throat, but I break into…
— Marie Lu
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And when wind and winter harden All the loveless land, It will whisper of the garden, You will understand.
— Oscar Wilde
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Perhaps my whisper was already born before my lips.
— Osip Mandelstam
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The whisper of the blood and the pleading of the bone marrow.
— Knut Hamsun
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Daisy began to sing with the music in a husky, rhythmic whisper, bringing out a meaning in each word that it had never had before…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Clary," he whispered. There was a thump, and she realized he had fallen to his kees by the side of her bed. She didn't move,…
— Cassandra Clare
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Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will always hurt me. Bones mend and become actually stronger in the very place they were…
— Stephen Fry
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He stops rocking the cage. "Oh, come on, Callie. It won't be fun if we don't rock it. In fact, the more we rock it,…
— Jessica Sorensen
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Ian squeezed my hand and leaned in to whisper through all the hair. His voice was so low that I was the only one who…
— Stephenie Meyer
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Andrew..,' I shake my head, tears rolling my cheeks, '... it was always you," I whisper harshly. 'Even with Ian, I felt something was missing.…
— J.A. Redmerski
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Or you might shout at the top of your lungs or whisper into your sleeve, "I hate you, God." That is a prayer too, because…
— Anne Lamott
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I didn’t know it would be like this,” he says in a whisper. And then: “I’m scared.
— Lauren Oliver
Who Wrote These Whisper Quotes
424 authors contributed a total of 623 Whisper Quotes, led by these top contributors: