Quote by Colum McCann

“The air felt suddenly shared. The man above was a word they seemed to know, though they had not heard it before.”

— Colum McCann

“But there was something in the air, a watchfulness laced with a charge of malice. The eyes observing us were invisible, but were observing…

— Charlaine Harris

“He had things he wanted to tell me too; I knew by the way his breath hung in the air before us.”

— Tina May Hall

“Around them there was nothing but silence, as if all the world were holding its breath.”

— Philip Pullman

“The quiet between them had gone on for far too long now to pretend it was anything other than what it was. There were…

— Jennifer E. Smith

“It was not a silence, just a quiet, the indrawn breath that comes before the shout.”

— George R.R. Martin

“Watch people breathing, you don’t notice it until they don’t.”

— Tablo

“I swallowed, feeling my pulse race, and gave silent thanks that there were no eyewitnesses to my blushing, which could have set a cigar…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“It was a stillness so profound one had to adjust one’s hearing to it. .... The silence seemed to be trying to tell him…

— Haruki Murakami

“My breaths came fast as the mist trailed through my body, strengthening and healing, pulsating and throbbing. I held my hands out with my…

— Ketley Allison

“...it was one of those dark nights that hold their breath by the hour together, and then heave a long low sigh, and hold…

— Charles Dickens

“I paused finally and watched the trees for slashes of light, but saw none. As my heart settled and my ears became less occupied…

— Augusten Burroughs