Descriptive-prose Quote by Hillary Jordan Download Open image ““A bruised silence descended on the van.”” — Hillary Jordan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Descriptive-prose Silence
“When the world stilled again, ominous silence reigned. Scratch that, not silence exactly. The van’s radiator hissed, and someone was groaning. Oh, right. That… — Jaye Wells Copy Share Image
“A dark SUV slipped through the fog and came to a stop. It was quiet. Almost silent.” — Norman Applegate Copy Share Image
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“I clutched the armrest when she gunned the engine on the freeway and cut off a minivan. “That big red shiny thing inches from… — Katie McGarry Copy Share Image
“The only noise is the engine on the medic van. It runs steadily, the broken heart of a failed enterprise.” — Ellen Kirschman Copy Share Image
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“There was that heavy silence that sometimes happens when a hit man enters a room.” — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“I walked up the ramp and stood in the van, trying to decide where to begin my inspection of the concealed words whose bones… — Janet Frame Copy Share Image
“Just then they saw a white van driving slowly down the road. It stopped about thirty feet from where KC and Marshall were standing.… — Ron Roy Copy Share Image
“It wasn't her fault if she seemed less than human, it was the fault of them that did this to her, and them that… — Hillary Jordan Copy Share Image
“She prayed for that all through the night, uncertain to Whom or what, but with a feeling that almost resembled faith.” — Hillary Jordan Copy Share Image
“Death may be inevitable, but love is not. Love, you have to choose. I'll begin with that. With Love.” — Hillary Jordan Copy Share Image
“She reached out and stroked my hair just as she had when I was a child. I closed my eyes and let sleep take… — Hillary Jordan Copy Share Image
“It wasn’t just that he loved her; it was that he loved her, in particular.” — Hillary Jordan Copy Share Image
“Daddy shook Pappy's hand, then Henry's, then hugged the children. At last he turned to me. Softly, in a voice meant for my ears… — Hillary Jordan Copy Share Image
When that mama worry takes ahold of a woman you can't expect no sense from her. She'll do or say anything at all and… — Hillary Jordan Copy Share Image
“If God is the Creator, if God englobes every single thing in the universe, then God is everything, and everything is God. God is… — Hillary Jordan Copy Share Image
“I talked to her just like I talk to a laboring woman. Mothers need to hear them soothing words. They just as important as… — Hillary Jordan Copy Share Image
“But I must start at the beginning, if I can find it. Beginnings are elusive things. Just when you think you have hold of… — Hillary Jordan Copy Share Image
“Night came early to this neighborhood, the sun fleeing the sky, leaving heaven black and blue.” — Lisa Scottoline Copy Share Image
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“Even as winter comes, mornings are crisp, and the big, blue sky seems to hang newly washed over the sea of hills.” — Deborah Lawrenson Copy Share Image
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“The vampire moved as a unit, talons extended, fangs sprung free of their houses of flesh. They came to where the delectable smell of… — Tamara Rose Blodgett Copy Share Image
“A shaft of moonlight illuminated a row of sentinel silver birch in a phosphorescent glow, appearing almost ethereal in the relative surrounding gloom. Boris… — R.D. Ronald Copy Share Image
“The most dreadful scenes, the worst in Dante's Inferno, for example, can be visualized by the inner eye; and sounds, too, are conveyed to… — William Henry Hudson Copy Share Image
