Home Quote by E.M. Blomqvist

“The house is eerily quiet. All this time I thought silence would be a welcome reprieve, but it's less comforting than I imagined. The…

— Hannah Harrington

“There is a silence in empty houses that is unique... People have left and taken all the noise with them.”

— Henning Mankell

“An empty house has its own special silence. It is like a great held breath.”

— Anne Rivers Siddons

“It's just a trickle at first, dark hallways, empty rooms, but then Angela sees a face. Eyes wide, nostrils flaring, a little girl's mouth…

— E.M. Blomqvist

“Sometimes the silence is the loudest thing in the room.”

— Cory Basil

“A silent house felt deeply unnatural, like a silent heart.”

— Amy Cross

“During all of dinner the singing went on upstairs, and no one said a word.”

— Shirley Jackson

“I've always thought it would be nice to have the house to myself for a while. This place gets so loud all theme and…

— Keary Taylor

“When they were silent for a moment the quiet weight of the house pressed down from all around them.”

— Shirley Jackson

“Everything was quiet now. It was even too freaky quiet. The house seemed big without anyone else inside. It felt lonely; like a ghost…

— Erica Sehyun Song

“Sometimes it's in the quiet that we hear the loudest things.”

— Anonymous

“Mister Singer reminded her of this music. She wished there was some place where she could go to hum it out loud. Some kind…

— Carson McCullers