Silence Quote by Herman Melville

“Then, with the barricades complete, the posts assigned, the muskets loaded, the lookouts placed, alone in these fearful streets in which there were now…

— Victor Hugo

“It was busy in Central Kitchen. The line snaked around the walls and tailed out the door, past the two burly gavvers and onto…

— Patricia Forde

“There was a horrible, wrenching sound, a screech of protesting metal, and one of the screams peaked at a shivering, violent point—then dissolved into…

— Jim Butcher

“The Lights..." said Norv the Raw, as if we might not have noticed. Before any further statements of the obvious could be made doors…

— Mark Lawrence

“Grins and disregarding silence met the shouts of the four imprisoned passengers, while the slightest attempt to alight provoked a menacing movement from a…

— James Hilton

“They stood in silence, looking at floorboards and corners of cornices and other such insignificances, their curiosity and compassion at the ready. They were…

— Diane Setterfield

“At the same time all the houses round about promptly took part in this silence, and so did the darkness above them, reaching as…

— Franz Kafka

“A figure moved, painfully flexing stiff, aching shoulder blades, and looked back towards the control tower. There was a different atmosphere about the place…

— Joy Ellis

“With the snow piling up outside, the warm dry cabin hidden in its fold of the mountain felt like a safe haven indeed, though…

— Charles Frazier

Quiet descended, a silence so consuming that even the drafty corridors ceased whistling. Bog wasn't certain where to look, so he solved the problem…

— A. Lee Martinez

“The oth­ers went up­stairs, a slow unwilling pro­ces­sion. If this had been an old house, with creak­ing wood, and dark shad­ows, and heav­ily pan­elled…

— Agatha Christie

“And yet I could still hear them. As if some part of their essence had evaporated into the air, become a part of this…

— Joanne Harris