Butterfly wings Quote by Martin Page

Green was the silence, wet was the light, the month of June trembled like a butterfly.

— Pablo Neruda

“Late in the afternoon the sky changed to pale gray and there was rain in the air, the atmosphere close and stifling, and a…

— Elmore Leonard

“The sound of silence carried by the wind.”

— Melissa Alberto

“Silence has gathered around me like a thick, viscous water filling in a muddy footprint. Early evening, swollen sky like an eye that”

— Joyce Carol Oates

“What came next wasn't exactly silence, because although it was quiet, a thousand things were being said. I hated that part about an unhappy…

— Deb Caletti

“The roses tremble; oh, the sunflower's eye Is opened wide in sad expectancy. Westward and back the circling swallows fly, The rooks' battalions dwindle…

— Denise Levertov

“But there was only that silence, as in the five or ten minutes before a vicious thundersquall strikes, when the purple heads stack up…

— Stephen King

“Silence fell like a hammer made of feathers. It left holes in the shape of the sound of the sea.”

— Terry Pratchett

Silence arrests flight, so that in its refuge, the need to flee the chaos of noise diminishes. We let the world creep closer, we…

— Barbara Hurd

“The silence is all there is. It is the alpha and the omega. It is God’s brooding over the face of the waters; it…

— Annie Dillard

“There was a tiny silence, only the soft hum of the fluorescence. I thought of her in the cold ruined house, with night birds…

— Tana French The Likeness

The silence was part of the story I wanted to tell.

— Joyce Maynard