Action-packed Quote by Michael Parker

“I saw their mouths going up and down without a sound, as if they were sitting on the deck of a departing ship, stranding…

— Sylvia Plath

“A breath of sound across the landing, almost imperceptible, like a shadow moving against blackness; then nothing.”

— Tana French

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

— Philip Pullman

“There is a silence where hath been no sound. There is a silence where no sound may be in the cold grave under the…

— Thomas Hood

“They sat in silence for a full minute, the air between them growing heavy, as if they both wanted to speak, and yet had…

— Dan Brown

“fortunately it came out as a mere breath of sound. Another body turned over, rustling,”

— Diana Gabaldon

“And for a long while they stood side by side without speaking, each seeing the other in every line of the landscape.”

— Edith Wharton

“...and the sound of her low voice seemed to have the accompaniment of all the other sounds, full of mystery, desolation, and sorrow, I…

— Joseph Conrad

“I could hear the human noise as were standing still in between the spaces of silence.”

— Truth Devour

“Also the air: the air is full of sighs and cries. These are never lost: if you listen carefully, with a sympathetic ear, you…

— J.M. Coetzee

“And it was the din of all these hollow-sounding voices that made him halt irresolutely in the pursuit of phantoms. He gave them ear…

— James Joyce

“It was completely still, not a sound within or outside. As if it was just the two of them, nothing more in the world,…

— Harriet Evans