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Before we packed our bags and left all this behind us in the dust. We had a place that we could call home, and…

— Rise Against

All we had was her room, her stories, and the quiet that settled in as we tried in vain to spread ourselves out and…

— Sarah Dessen

It was entirely silent and I tried to breathe its peace.

— Sebastian Faulks

We laughed and laughed, together and separately, out loud and silently, we were determined to ignore whatever needed to be ignored, to build a…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

I wrapped my arms around my knees and stared through the window's wavy glass. The red velvet curtains were drawn around the tiny alcove,…

— Ally Carter

We fell silent again. The thing we had shared was nothing more than a fragment of time that had died longe ago.Even so, a…

— Haruki Murakami

The sound of wind had become, for me, silence. When it went away, I was left with the squeak of the blood in my…

— David Foster Wallace

The rain came down upon my head - Unshelter'd. And the wind rendered me mad and deaf and blind.

— Edgar Allan Poe

And I needed a rock. Something to hold onto, to stand on. Something solid. Because everything was going soft, turning into mush, into marsh,…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

I was screaming into the canyon at the moment of my death; the echo I created outlasted my last breath,

— Fiona Apple

As the music played over the speakers and the waterfall in the pool filled the silence around us, I knew that without a doubt…

— Abbi Glines

I set fire...to the rain. Watched it pour as I, touched your face. Well, it burned while I cry. Cause I heard it screaming…

— Adele