City-on-fire Quote by Garth Risk Hallberg

“Even after the ringing stopped, the sound of the bell lingered through the evening gloom like the dust floating in the air.”

— Haruki Murakami

“Like the silence that surrounds the tolling of the bell allows you to hear the bell.”

— Joyce Carol Oates

“It came with the wind through the silence of the night, a long, deep mutter, then a rising howl, and then the sad moan…

— Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

“I was still ringing. I had been my whole life a bell, and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and…

— Annie Dillard

“Some element in the air between us changed, as though a wind that had been blowing gently had come to an abrupt stillness.”

— Tan Twan Eng

“The bell jar hung, suspended, a few feet above my head. I was open to the circulating air.”

— Sylvia Plath

“Bell lifted her hand to her chest. Her heart beat so quickly. She was floating out on a tide of agony, and soon she…

— Ayana Mathis

“...he heard a sound that only a magnificent old bell could produce, a sound that seemed to roar forth with all the latent power…

— Yasunari Kawabata

“A bell is just a cup until it is struck.”

— The Bandit King

“You Can't Unring a Bell.”

— David Foster Wallace

“But there was only that silence, as in the five or ten minutes before a vicious thundersquall strikes, when the purple heads stack up…

— Stephen King

“Like the clanging of the bell, the truth crashes in upon me. At last I understand. He took away my voice to save me.…

— Julie Berry