Quote by Mary Higgins Clark

“I didn’t hear any of that,” he said. “You didn’t?” “Nope. Chivalry occasionally causes deafness.”

— Merrie Haskell

“He was probably being so quiet because he was trying not to say it out loud.”

— Rainbow Rowell

“His ears perked up as though he'd heard something,”

— J.L. Bryan

“There was a ringing in his ears, like a dead phone line that he couldn’t hang up on.”

— Mark Capell

“don't call me stupid without calling me stupid and think I'd bee too stupid to notice!”

— Eric Jerome Dickey

“I called, but the phones were all tied up. And so were the operators who normally answer them. Some were even gagged too.”

— Jarod Kintz

“It sounded to him like the noise of too many mouths that talk and too few minds that think.”

— Lisa Unger

“I could not bring myself to hang up the phone or even so much as move it from my ear. The chance that I…

— Jasmine Dubroff

“I'm not even tone deaf, that's the arse-mothering, fuck-nosed, bugger-sucking wank of the thing.”

— Stephen Fry

“How important could the sound it made be, if no one was able to hear it?”

— Michael Lewis

“Johanna, could you really hear him screaming?" "That was part of it," she says. "Like the jabber jays in the arena. Only it was…

— Suzanne Collins

“I couldn’t think of any response that did not involve high pitched screaming.”

— Rick Riordan