Quote by Louise Penny

“The pair stood in long silence. Another thing Eilidh missed. Humans rushed everywhere, filled every moment with noise. They lacked the discipline of quiet.”

— India Drummond

“Some people rushed into danger without a thought for their own safety. Others ran away. And some froze. I fitted into the latter group.”

— Estelle Ryan

“She could only wait. But she was not idle while she waited, because she was holding herself in readiness for whatever it was that…

— Elizabeth Goudge

“It's All Officers, sir." They broke into a run. You always did for an All Officers. The people in trouble might well be you.”

— Terry Pratchett

“impatient. I had to do things the Army’s way: hurry up and wait.”

— Charles Brandt

“May be it's hard to tell from us what people were like in the old days, but no one looks behind himself anymore. Everyone's…

— Valentin Rasputin

“So rather than waiting...he did the imaginable.”

— Dan Santat

“No, I’m not running. Cowards run, and I’m not a coward. A coward would have stayed behind. A coward would have waited for Orrian,…

— Victoria Aveyard

“I’m tempted to kill the general first, then his staff officers. Sometimes you just want to eat pudding early. All the same, I make…

— David Gunn

“When Olivier had been taken away Gamache had sat back down and stared at the sack. what could be worse than Chaos, Despair, War?…

— Louise Penny

“They needn’t have worried. Three hundred men, it turned out, were not enough to massacre a man like Bussy.* The assassination attempt had not…

— Nancy Goldstone

“Around them there was nothing but silence, as if all the world were holding its breath.”

— Philip Pullman