Language Quote by Katherine Ewell

“My thoughts are quiet, but not calm. There is a terror on the edge of the silence, a terror fed by my burning flesh…

— Christine Fonseca

“I felt something fall away inside. Some floor, and from beneath it boiled up something dark, black and bitter, craving vengeance.”

— Kevin Emerson

“And then something happened. It was a fragment of time, a breath of time. It was like being in a car in pouring rain…

— Jaclyn Moriarty

“Finally, she grew quiet. After that, coherent thought. With this, stalked through her a cold, bloody rage; Hours of this; a period of introspection;…

— Zora Neale Hurston

“But even then I knew how it was going to be, I could feel the coming silence in the long, poisonous pauses that expanded…

— Sue Miller

“All reality about me now appeared to be in tatters, taken down and reduced to the civil war of its particles. I held on…

— Sebastian Faulks

“What was happening to me? I used to be so unemotional, so strong and hard and ruthless in my decisions. Now I felt like…

— Kate Avery Ellison

“...a complicit mustiness hung in the air, the odour of silence and calm.”

— Umberto Eco

“Then a sound came.  It was like the grinding of gears on a colossal ship engine.  The sound was like mountains of iron scraping…

— Alec Merta

“What occurred did so because I was open to it, and not because fate and I met at a certain angle. I had plenty…

— Rachel Kushner

“Words being but a breath, the stir of awakened minds is like the rustling of leaves.”

— Victor Hugo

“the words were like gunpowder blasts, sparking me into thought and action.”

— Kailin Gow