Quote by Michelle Hodkin

“She actually moved her neck back and forth as though to shake off the cumbersome weight of the sound, and realized that she had…

— Elizabeth Strout

“hear the tune, she must only stop talking. To herself, I mean. We’re always trying to persuade ourselves of things.”

— Lisa Wingate

“She was in the mood for sounds of every kind now, and strained her ears to catch the faintest, in wayward enmity to her…

— Thomas Hardy

“Music took her somewhere, and I used to wonder where. I thought it was dumb, the way she lived for a collection of sounds,…

— Megan Lindholm

“She heard a low murmur of the far-away voices: a chant repeated over and over.”

— Angela Orlowski-Peart

“Without a word she swivels, as if she’s voice activated, as if she’s on little oiled wheels, as if she’s on top of a…

— Margaret Atwood

“It was the kind of voice that the ear follows up and down, as if each speech is an arrangement of notes that will…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“She appears quiet and subdued. The paradox: Raging storms twirl inside her.”

— Melody Lee

“There was thin, reverberating silence; the sort of delicately plucked note that isn’t heard, but felt in the heart.”

— Kirsty Eagar

“The day she clips her way out of her cocoon, the only sound she plans to hear is a deafening cheer.”

— Nikki Grimes

“It’s hard to hear the music behind the words when their meanings get in the way,” she told me once.”

— Ken Liu

“sheets, I keep hearing something—or someone—calling, just loud enough to pierce the walls. The voice is surely something more than wind, curling and twisting…

— Victoria Schwab