Emily Quote by Kelley R. Martin

“When sounds of the world around you vanish, what is left but screaming silence.”

— Markus Peterson

“...the earth quietly swam away from under my feet.”

— Ivan Turgenev

“As I walked down the sidewalk, it felt like everything around me was listening. The asphalt heard my thoughts, and the building around me…

— Burbuqe Raufi

“The sound did not hide the void, but it filled it with a kind of light: nothing that would stop you from falling, but…

— Padma Viswanathan

“I felt a kind of vertigo, as if I were merely plunging from one world to another, and in each I arrived shortly after…

— Italo Calvino

“You are out of the world’s chatter, its corridor echoes, its muttering. Walking: it hits you at first like an immense breathing in the…

— Frédéric Gros

“And suddenly everything around me seemed to grow quiet, as if he were the wind that blew and I were just a cloud carried…

— Arthur Golden

“My screams were loud enough to reach the corners of the earth.”

— Courtney Cole

“Who would have imagine that the sound your life made as it disintegrated was total silence?”

— Jodi Picoult

“Suddenly, an incredibly loud explosion was heard rumbling behind them. It sounded like someone dropped a mountain from the clouds. It was a deep…

— Jason Medina

“And I wonder what the sound of a heart breaking might be. And I think it might be quiet, unperceptively so, and not dramatic…

— Sarah Winman

“I felt like I was sort of disappearing. It was that kind of a crazy afternoon, terrifically cold, and no sun out or anything,…

— J.D. Salinger