Quote by Mercy Celeste

“Deacon noticed a pattern where Thursday was concerned. Woman, fight, brood alone in angry silence, rinse and repeat.”

— Mercy Celeste

“Silence gradually spread its great, fragile butterfly wings across the ward. The sun had disappeared, replaced by grey and rain. This particular month of…

— Martin Page

“Afternoon with Michel, sorting maman’s belongings. Began the day by looking at her photographs. A cruel mourning begins again (but had never ended). To…

— Roland Barthes

“At evening when the lamp is lit, The tired Human People sit And doze, or turn with solemn looks The speckled pages of their…

— Oliver Herford

“Now, as the labor began, it was the storm she recalled. The thrash of wind and trees and the quiet terror that had kept…

— Alice McDermott

“Well aware that to bring the voice of sober reason to bear upon the exaggerations of agitated females was both fruitless and perilous, Freddy…

— Georgette Heyer

“Ever since he repented of religion and shaved off his clerical beard and mustache, he has had the constant feeling that he has taken…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

“… for it is the fate of a woman Long to be patient and silent, to wait like a ghost that is speechless, Till some…

— Margaret Atwood

“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

“Clutching the tablecloth tightly under her arm, the Queen felt for the second time that day a wave of dignity that made her lift…

— Pedro Lemebel

“With her silence alone she held off, for a moment longer, the suggestion that the worst was over, the tree had fallen, the storm…

— Alice McDermott

“The carol was giddily busy and incessant, but my eyes saw nothing. That bird never stops and must, it appears, sing out the whole…

— Sōseki Natsume