First time Quote by John Speed

“She actually moved her neck back and forth as though to shake off the cumbersome weight of the sound, and realized that she had…

— Elizabeth Strout

“And she sang. Perhaps she'd never stop, for it was rather freeing, this blissful, empowered place where she was nothing but rhythm and resonance.”

— Dianna Hardy

“She was a poem and a painting too. Everything she said sounded like a song, every silence was the music too.”

— Akshay Vasu

“She wasn't actually speaking to me, she was singing a kind of lullaby of talk. But, eventually, the music stopped. ”

— Alice Sebold

“rushing through her system drowned all other sound. Numb, she listened to the world pulse in and out around her. Then, deathly silence reigned.    ”

— Adriana Noir

“She couldn't have told you whether it was because she was afraid, or because such a voice in the darkness seemed of necessity a…

— Henry James

“The first time I heard her, I never wanted to listen to anyone else.”

— Michelle Hodkin

“Her beauty was like a pulsating silence full of music.”

— Lionel Suggs

“Her silence was often louder than her voice, but her laugh, touched everyone. I’ve seen it wake entire graveyards before, bringing lonely souls home,…

— Caroline White

“He laid his hands on her head, pushing back the hood. He began to speak. His voice was soft, and the words were in…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“Instead of making me docile, Lucinda’s curse made a rebel of me. Or perhaps I was that way naturally.”

— Gail Carson Levine

“If she got really quiet and listened, new parts of her wanted to speak.”

— SARK